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25 Céntimos Benimantell
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benimantell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#307-A |
| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in dark olive-green ink on light blue card stock. A large numeral '25' occupies the left half of the note, while the right half carries the issuing authority in two lines — 'Consejo Municipal' above and 'DE BENIMANTELL' centred between two horizontal rules — with the denomination 'céntimos' in bold serif type at lower right, underlined by a double rule. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light blue card stock bearing a single hand-applied oval municipal stamp in red-pink ink, centrally placed. The stamp bears the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL * BENIMANTELL *' around the perimeter and encloses a small heraldic vignette — an armorial device — at its centre. |
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Benimantell is a village in the Alicante province with a population that barely reached a few hundred in the 1930s — which makes this 25 céntimos note an unusually minor issuer even by the chaotic standards of Republican Spain's wartime small-change crisis. From 1936 onward, the disappearance of metal coinage from circulation prompted hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and local councils to print their own emergency fractional currency, a phenomenon documented exhaustively in Gari's catalog. Most of these issuers were small; Benimantell was among the smallest.
Survival rates for village-level Valencian emergency notes vary enormously, and print runs for councils this size were typically in the low hundreds.