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5 Céntimos Beniopa
| Issuer | Beniopa, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher on cream-coloured card stock in black ink. A large bold numeral '5' occupies the left half of the note, while the right half carries the issuing authority's name and denomination in stacked lines of varying typefaces. A horizontal rule underscores the word 'céntimos' at the base of the text block. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock, left intentionally blank save for a hand-applied oval municipal stamp and a manuscript signature serving as the principal authenticating elements. |
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Beniopa was a small municipality in the Valencia region that, like hundreds of other Spanish Republican towns during the Civil War, issued its own emergency small-change notes when metallic coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely after 1936. The hoarding of copper and silver, combined with the disruption of the Mint, forced local councils to improvise. Most of these issues were produced on whatever card stock was available locally, which is exactly what the thick substrate here reflects — not a deliberate choice, but a practical one.
Beniopa has since been absorbed into Gandia. The municipality that issued this note no longer exists as an administrative entity.