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25 Céntimos Benifato
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benifato |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black letterpress. The issuer name 'Consejo Municipal - BENIFATO' appears at the top, separated from the denomination area by a horizontal rule with a row of small triangular ornaments beneath it. The denomination 'Vale por 25 CÉNTIMOS' is set in bold typeface in the lower portion of the note, with no additional vignette or decorative elements. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse bearing a large oval official municipal stamp applied in black ink at centre. The stamp legend reads 'ALCALDIA CONSTITUCIONAL - BENIFATO / REPUBLICA ESPAÑOLA' encircling a small municipal coat of arms vignette, validating the note as an authorised instrument of the local authority. |
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Benifato is a village in the Comtat de Guadalest, inland Alicante province, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the Republic. That a municipal council this small was authorizing its own fractional currency in 1937 reflects the near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage circulation on the Republican home front — the brass and copper had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished. Councils across Valencia and Alicante filled the gap with locally stamped paper, most of it crudely produced and redeemable only within the issuing municipality.
The Gari Montsant cataloguing places this among the rarer village-level emissions from the region. Survival rates for notes from settlements this small are low — short redemption windows, no banking infrastructure, and wartime destruction account for most losses.