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25 Céntimos Benamaurel
| Issuer | Benamaurel, Municipality of |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed in dark blue ink by letterpress, entirely typographic in layout, enclosed within a single rectangular border frame. The issuing authority is set out in a hierarchical arrangement of typefaces: 'Trabajadores del Comercio' in serif uppercase above 'COLECTIVO DE BENAMAUREL' in bold display type, followed by the promise-to-pay clause and the denomination '25 céntimos' in large Roman numerals. A violet hand-stamped serial number and series designation ('Série A') appear above the frame in a contrasting ink. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely blank, printed on plain uncoated paper with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Benamaurel is a small municipality in the province of Granada, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own fractional emergency paper during the Civil War years after the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation almost immediately in 1936. These local issues — collectively known as "guerra civil" cartones or billetes locales — were produced under wildly varying conditions, often by local printers with no banknote experience, on whatever paper was available.
The Gari Mon reference being incomplete signals that documentation on this specific emission remains thin. Survival rates for these minor municipal issues are unpredictable — some were printed in tiny quantities and simply used up, while others sat in drawers and survived in quantity.