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50 Céntimos Benejama
| Issuer | Benejama, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper with all text letterpress-printed in red. The promise-to-pay legend occupies the left portion in mixed roman type, while the face value "50 céntimos" appears in a dotted rectangular frame at right. The word "CINCUENTA" is set in large bold capitals across the lower centre, with the treasurer's title "El Depositario," printed beneath in smaller italic type. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream stock printed in reddish-orange letterpress. The coat of arms of the Spanish Republic is centrally placed, flanked by the issuing locality "BENEJAMA (ALICANTE)" and the date of issue "Octubre 1937". The legend "República Española" appears above the arms in capital letters. |
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Benejama is a small municipality in the Valencian interior, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republic's small-change shortage became acute. The central government had lost effective control of coin supply, and local councils stepped in with paper substitutes — some printed professionally, many produced on whatever press was available nearby.
Gari Mon#283-D places this within a documented series, but Benejama's issues remain among the harder valencian municipals to source, simply because the town's population was small and total print runs reflected that.