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25 Céntimos Benejama
| Issuer | Benejama, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 77 × 52 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper ground with all text letterpress-printed in reddish-orange. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is printed in the centre, flanked by the issuing municipality and provincial references. The date and republican title appear in the surrounding text. |
| Reverse lettering | República Española Octubre 1937 BENEJAMA (ALICANTE) (Translation: Spanish Republic October 1937 Benejama (Alicante)) |
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Benejama is a small municipality in the Valencian interior, and like hundreds of similarly minor Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local issues — collectively known as "billetes locales" or "moneda municipal" — were produced under no standardized authority, often printed by whatever press was available nearby, and had no validity beyond the issuing township's boundaries.
Survival rates vary enormously across the series; notes from tiny Valencian municipalities like Benejama were produced in small quantities and saw hard use in a wartime economy with little incentive for preservation.