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25 Céntimos Beniardá
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Beniardá |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 63 × 52 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain light green paper with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal' appears at the top in large serif type, with 'BENIARDÁ' underlined below it by a single horizontal rule. The denomination 'Vale por 25 céntimos' is set in two lines in the lower half, the whole composition enclosed within a rectangular border of small repeating square elements. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank light green reverse bearing a single hand-applied oval validation stamp in red ink, enclosing the municipal coat of arms at centre and carrying the circular legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL / BENIARDÁ / (Alicante)'. |
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Beniardá is a village in the Vall de Guadalest, Valencia, with a population that barely reached 300 in the 1930s. Like dozens of similarly tiny Valencian municipalities during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional scrip in 1937 when Republican-zone copper coinage vanished almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from rural supply chains. These hyper-local emissions were technically sanctioned under Republican decree but practically ungovernable, and quality varied accordingly.
Gari Montllor's catalog documents Beniardá's emission as a single known type. Survival is poor across the entire municipal scrip category, and notes from villages this small often exist in single-digit quantities.