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1 Peseta Benatae
| Issuer | Comisión de Abastos de Benatae |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain off-white card stock printed entirely in black letterpress, with all text arranged in a centered, tiered layout within a triple-rule rectangular border accented by decorative corner pieces and a small ornamental device at the top and bottom centre. The issuing authority appears in an archaic serif typeface at the top, followed by the place of issue and the promise-to-pay legend, with the denomination rendered in a substantially larger display script at the foot of the field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white card stock, largely unprinted, bearing a hand-stamped circular municipal seal in violet ink applied to the centre of the field, with a black typeset serial number struck within the area enclosed by the stamp. |
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Benatae is a small municipality in the Sierra de Segura, Jaén province. During the Spanish Civil War, acute coin shortages — partly caused by hoarding, partly by the Republican government's inability to maintain metal circulation in rural areas — forced hundreds of local councils and supply committees across loyalist-held Spain to issue their own emergency paper. The Comisión de Abastos, essentially a local rationing and supply authority, had no formal banking mandate; these notes were instruments of necessity, not monetary policy.
The official stamp was the sole guarantee of validity — without it, the note was worthless paper. Forgery was less the concern than acceptance outside the issuing village.