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50 Céntimos Benavent de Segrià
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Benavent de Segrià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 CTS. CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE BENAVENT DE SEGRIA BON contra la caixa Municipal. El Alcalde, El Secretari, Finances, 50 CTS. (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of Benavent de Segrià Bond against the Municipal Fund. The Mayor, The Secretary, Finance, 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse with black letterpress text on unprinted paper, carrying the full legal text of the issue including the issuer's name, denomination in words, emission date, and a mandatory circulation clause. |
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Benavent de Segrià is a small municipality in the Lleida plain, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues to fill the gap, producing an extraordinary proliferation of locally-printed notes that varied enormously in quality and surviving quantities.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these wartime municipals. Many issues from small Lleida-province towns are genuinely scarce today, having circulated hard in tight local economies before becoming worthless at the war's end.