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25 Céntimos Benisa
| Issuer | Sindicato de Trabajadores de Comercio y Oficinas de Benisa (U.G.T.) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the obverse is centred on the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic, set within a geometric guilloche underprint. Bold letterpress text above and below states the union's payment obligation to the bearer in Bank of Spain banknotes, with the denomination expressed in full, in a layout typical of Republican-era Civil War emergency currency. |
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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.