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25 Céntimos Benetúser
| Issuer | Benetúser, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark ink on green card stock, the obverse bears three lines of letterpress text arranged centrally: the issuing authority legend at top, the denomination in the centre, and the municipality name in spaced capitals at foot. The green ground carries a faint floral or guilloche-style underprint visible through the text. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is left intentionally blank on green card stock, validated by a violet oval municipal stamp applied by hand, its text running around the perimeter of the seal and partially legible as the issuing council's authority mark. |
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Benetúser is a small municipality in the Valencian Community, and like hundreds of similar towns across Republican-held Spain, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the hoarding of metal coins created acute shortages in everyday commerce. These local issues — often called "moneda municipal de necesidad" — were produced in enormous variety, typically by local printers with no specialized security printing experience, which accounts for the thick card stock here rather than conventional banknote paper.
The Turró and Garí references both document this as a genuine emission rather than a philatelic curiosity, though survival rates for these tiny Valencian pieces vary considerably — the card substrate holds up better than thinner issues from the same period.