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25 Céntimos Benisa

Issuer Sindicato de Trabajadores de Comercio y Oficinas de Benisa (U.G.T.)
Year 1937
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Value 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP)
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Obverse lettering EL SINDICATO DE TRABAJADORES DE COMERCIO Y OFICINAS DE BENISA PAGARÁ AL PORTADOR EN BILLETES DEL BANCO DE ESPAÑA VEINTICINCO CENTIMOS
(Translation: The Commerce Workers Union and Offices of Benisa Will pay the bearer in banknotes from the Bank of Spain Twenty-five Centimos)
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Reverse lettering 25 CENTIMOS SERIE B. BENISA, 10 DE MAYO DE 1937. U.G.T. SECCIÓN DEL COMERCIO BERNARDO MULET - GATA DE GORGOS
(Translation: 25 Centimos Series B. Benisa, 10 May 1937. U.G.T. Commerce Section. Bernardo Mulet - Gata de Gorgos)
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes issued by Republican trade union bodies during the Spanish Civil War, when the hoarding of metal coinage brought small-change commerce to a near standstill across loyalist territory. This particular issue comes not from a municipal government but from the Sindicato de Trabajadores de Comercio y Oficinas — the UGT's commerce and office workers' union in Benisa — giving it an unusually specific labor-movement provenance for a village-level instrument.

Bernardo Mulet, working out of the neighboring town of Gata de Gorgos, printed several local emergency issues in this period. The reference to Gari Mon#316-B places it within Eduard Gari's cataloging of Valencian Civil War paper, the standard authority for this material.

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