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25 Céntimos Beniel
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Beniel |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in blue ink, enclosed within a single-line rectangular border. The municipal coat of arms of Beniel appears as a vignette to the left, with the issuing authority's name, promise-to-pay legend, denomination in words and figures, and date of issue arranged in plain text across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain paper stock, consistent with the rudimentary production methods typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Beniel is a small agricultural municipality in the Vega Baja del Segura, Murcia. During the Civil War, the Republican zone faced a near-total collapse of small coinage in circulation — silver had been hoarded and copper issues couldn't keep pace with demand — which forced hundreds of Spanish ayuntamientos to print their own emergency paper fractions. Beniel's 25 céntimos is one of the more obscure entries in that enormous local emission phenomenon, documented under the Gari Monetary catalogue rather than the more commonly cited Cuhaj or Civil War specialist references.
The Gari Mon#298-A designation places it within a recognized but thinly traded collecting niche. Survival rate for these municipal fractionals is unpredictable — some towns issued thousands, others mere hundreds, and destruction after the war was often deliberate.