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50 Céntimos Benavites
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benavites |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design on cream card stock, with the large numeral '50' occupying the entire left half in bold block type. To the right, the issuer inscription is arranged in three tiers separated by short rules, with 'céntimos' in italic letterpress at the lower right underlined by a single rule. The note carries no vignette, ornamental border, or underprint, reflecting the austere wartime emergency production of this local issue. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse, consisting of plain cream-coloured card stock with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements, consistent with the emergency wartime production of this local Spanish Civil War issue. |
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Benavites is a tiny municipality in Valencia province — its 1937 population was under two hundred — which makes the Consejo Municipal's decision to issue emergency fractional currency an act of sheer local necessity rather than institutional ambition. The Civil War had almost entirely removed small-change coinage from circulation across Republican-held Spain, and hundreds of municipalities, many far smaller than anyone would expect, printed their own paper to fill the gap.
The Gari Montalvo catalogue documents this as the B variety, implying at least one other emission or type exists within the series. For a village of this size, even distinguishing between variants is remarkable.