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25 Céntimos Benissanet
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Benissanet (Municipality of Benissanet) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE BENISSANET COMARCA RIBERA: IV REGIÓ CATALANA VINT-I-CINC CÈNTIMS L'Alcalde, El Caixer, El Secret.-Interventor, (Translation: City Council of Benissanet, Ribera Region: IV Catalan Region, Twenty-Five Centimos, The Mayor, The Cashier, The Secretary-Comptroller) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BENISSANET 25 CENTIMS Bitllet de circulació obligatòria a tota la jurisdicció municipal. Emissió segons acord del 31 juliol 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Benissanet 25 Centimos. Mandatory circulation banknote throughout the municipal jurisdiction. Issue under agreement of 31 July 1937) |
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Benissanet is a small village on the Ebro in southern Catalonia, and its 1937 emergency paper issues were typical of the explosion of municipal fractional currency produced across Republican-held Spain when metallic coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation in the early months of the Civil War. By mid-1937, hundreds of Spanish municipalities — many with populations under a thousand — were printing their own notes to fill the void the central Republican authorities could not adequately address.
Turró catalogues this issue but survival rates for small-village Catalan war emergency notes vary enormously; Benissanet produced limited quantities by necessity, not policy.