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5 Céntimos Benidorm
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benidorm |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 104 × 72 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on green paper, the obverse is laid out in letterpress with the issuer legend 'EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE BENIDORM' across the central field, framed by a decorative rectangular border with foliate guilloche flourishes. The denomination '5 céntimos' appears at upper left and right, while the coat of arms of the Spanish Republic occupies the top centre. A bearer clause and issue date in italic script occupy the lower portion of the note, with vertical rule borders framing both side edges. |
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| Reverse lettering | Consejo Municipal de Benidorm 5 Céntimos (Translation: Municipal Council of Benidorm 5 Centimos) |
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Benidorm in 1937 was a small fishing village with a population under a thousand — nothing like the resort city it would become. The note was issued by the local municipal council under the Republican government's authorization of small-denomination emergency paper, a response to the acute shortage of small coinage that plagued the Republican zone throughout the Civil War. Copper and bronze coins had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936, leaving municipalities scrambling to produce their own fractional substitutes.
Catalogued under Gari Monereo rather than the standard Pick system, which tells you something about how localized and obscure this emission was.