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35 Céntimos Benidorm
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benidorm |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 35 Centimos (0.35 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on pale green paper, with a ruled border of alternating thick and thin lines framing the entire face. The denomination '35 céntimos' appears in bold at upper left and upper right, flanking a central vignette of the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic set within a decorative dotted-rule cartouche. A scrolled ribbon banner below the arms carries the issuer's name, beneath which the promise-to-pay text and the issue date are rendered in a mix of roman and italic typefaces, with the words 'treinta y cinco' in bold. The title 'El Presidente del Consejo Municipal' appears at the foot of the note without a manuscript signature. |
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| Reverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Benidorm 35 Céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Benidorm 35 Centimos) |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes — billetes de necesidad — issued by Republican municipalities during the Spanish Civil War when coin shortages made small transactions nearly impossible. Benidorm in 1937 was a tiny fishing village of perhaps a few thousand people; the municipal council issuing its own scrip was not unusual, but a 35-céntimo denomination is an odd choice, avoiding the more common 25 and 50-céntimo values that most councils defaulted to.
The Garrido Moncada catalog reference is unassigned, suggesting this piece was either documented too late for the main sequence or remains insufficiently verified — worth noting for any dealer submitting provenance records to update the listing.