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50 Céntimos Benisanó
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Benisanó (Province of Valencia) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL * BENISANÓ * (Translation: Municipal Council of Benisanó) |
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| Protection type | Official stamp |
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Benisanó is a small municipality in the Valencia province with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s, which makes any surviving example of this note genuinely rare by simple arithmetic. Like hundreds of other Spanish Republican municipalities during the Civil War, the local council issued its own fractional currency in 1937 to address a chronic shortage of small coin — copper and silver had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after July 1936.
The official stamp serves as the primary authentication mechanism, a telling indicator of how improvised the entire municipal currency apparatus was.