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25 Céntimos Beniel
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Beniel |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in violet ink with a single-rule perimeter border framing the entire face. The municipal coat of arms of Beniel is positioned to the left, with the issuing authority's name, denomination, and dated promise-to-pay legend arranged in typeset text across the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Ayuntamiento de Beniel Pagará al portador 25 CÉNTIMOS Beniel a 15 de Octubre de 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Beniel Will pay the bearer 25 Centimos Beniel, October 15, 1937) |
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Beniel is a small municipality in Murcia, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage all but vanished from circulation after 1936. These local notes — often printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes on card — filled the gap left by hoarded metal and disrupted supply chains from the Mint in Madrid.
The Gari Montsó catalog documents these Murcian municipals in detail; the #298-D designation suggests a distinct variant within the Beniel series, likely a color or paper differentiation rather than a separate emission date. Survival rates for such notes are unpredictable — many small-town issues were never formally redeemed and simply disappeared with the communities that backed them.