25 Céntimos Beniel

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.