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25 Céntimos Beniatjar
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Beniatjar |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock printed in black letterpress with the issuing authority name arranged in three lines at the top, separated by a horizontal rule. A small solid black bullet appears at centre, above the denomination in bold serif type at the foot of the note. The design is entirely typographic, with no vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank card stock bearing a large oval municipal stamp applied in violet ink at centre, enclosing a coat of arms and the legend of the Consejo Municipal de Beniatjar around the border. A handwritten authorising signature crosses the face of the stamp. |
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Beniatjar is a village in the comarca of El Comtat, Valencia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. The Consejo Municipal issued these small-denomination emergency notes — known collectively as "moneda local de guerra" — because Republican-zone currency fractional coins had effectively vanished from circulation by mid-1937, hoarded or melted down as the war consumed metal supplies. Hundreds of Valencian municipalities did the same, producing their own ad hoc paper.
The Turró and Gari catalogues together document well over a thousand such Spanish Civil War local issues. Beniatjar's entry is among the more obscure, and surviving examples are rarely seen outside specialist Iberian collections.