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25 Céntimos Benahadux
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benahadux |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green ink with geometric border framing the entire note; ocher underprint with decorative geometric patterns fills the background. Central text block carries the denomination and issuing authority inscriptions in bold letterpress. The overall layout is typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues, with minimal ornamentation beyond the framing guilloche-style border. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 cts. VALE PROVISIONAL Consejo Municipal de Benahadux Canjeable Papel Moneda del Estado (Translation: 25 Centimos Provisional voucher Municipal Council of Benahadux Exchangeable Paper Money of the State) |
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Benahadux is a village of a few hundred inhabitants in the Almería province, and its municipal council — like dozens of other tiny Andalusian municipalities in the summer and autumn of 1936 — was forced to print its own fractional currency when the Nationalist uprising caused the hoarding and disappearance of coins almost overnight. The Republican-held south faced a near-total small-change crisis within weeks of the July coup.
Local emergency issues of this kind were typically produced on whatever printing equipment existed in the town — often a municipal press or local newspaper shop. Gari catalogues several hundred such Almería-region pieces, most with survival rates that make even circulated examples genuinely difficult to locate.