25 Céntimos Beniel

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.