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25 Céntimos Beniopa
| Issuer | Beniopa, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#313-B, TurróPV#378 |
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| Reverse description | Plain pale green card stock, otherwise blank, validated by a violet oval official stamp inscribed 'CONSEJO DE ECONOMIA' at top and 'COMULA DE BENIOPA' at bottom, flanked by two small five-pointed stars. A handwritten ink signature crosses the centre of the stamp. |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Beniopa was a small municipality in the Valencia region that issued its own emergency fractional currency during the early months of the Civil War, when Republican Spain faced a severe shortage of small-denomination coinage. Coins had been hoarded almost immediately after July 1936, forcing hundreds of Spanish towns — large and small — to print their own local substitutes. Beniopa's issue is among the more modest in scale, which is precisely why surviving examples surface so rarely.
The Turró and Gari catalogues both document this type, though concordance between the two reference systems for Valencian municipal issues is often imperfect. The official stamp is the primary authentication element — without it, these were simply unsigned paper.