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25 Céntimos Benalúa de las Villas
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benalúa de las Villas |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper ground with all text letterpress-printed in green ink. The series designation appears at the top, followed by the serial number in a larger dark blue typeface, beneath which the issuing authority, locality and province, treasury designation, emission year, and denomination are arranged in centred lines of varying sizes. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper with no printed design. A circular official rubber stamp in red-brown ink at the lower left bears the legend of the Frente Popular Comité Local of Benalua de las Villas (Granada), enclosing a clasped-hands vignette at its base. Pencilled notations appear at the upper right, likely added by a contemporary collector or accountant. |
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Benalúa de las Villas is a small municipality in the Montefrío district of Granada province, and this 25 céntimos note is one of hundreds of fractional emergency issues produced across Republican-held Andalusia during the Civil War after Franco's Nationalist forces disrupted the supply of small coinage from Madrid. Municipal councils — the Consejo Municipal being the wartime successor to the peacetime ayuntamiento — were authorized informally to plug the change shortage however they could, which meant local paper on local authority, often with no formal redemption mechanism in place.
The Gari Montaner reference is unassigned, suggesting the cataloger recorded the type but could not locate a confirmed surviving specimen at the time of compilation.