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0.50 Peseta Cornudella de Montsant
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Cornudella de Montsant (Municipal Council) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in dark red on cream paper, enclosed within a double-line rectangular border decorated with a continuous dotted-square ornamental frame. The upper portion carries the municipal authority name in two lines, flanked by small pyramidal vignettes, above the denomination statement in bold lettering. The printer's imprint appears below the frame at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in dark red on cream paper, divided into two distinct zones by a single vertical rule. The left zone is enclosed in a simple rectangular border and carries the validity text in stacked lines with a double underline accent, and the series designation at the lower left. The right zone bears a handwritten serial number alongside a large circular red official stamp of the Consell Municipal de Cornudella de Montsant, incorporating the quartered Catalan coat of arms at its centre. |
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Cornudella de Montsant is a small municipality in the Priorat comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns it resorted to locally printed fractional paper during the Civil War after metallic coin essentially vanished from circulation in 1936. These municipal emergency issues — collectively known as "paper moneda local" — were authorized under a decree that effectively gave any municipality, cooperative, or collective the right to issue their own scrip. The result was thousands of distinct issues, most printed in runs so small that survival rates are low simply due to indifference rather than destruction.
Imp. Ferrando of Reus handled printing for numerous small Tarragona-area municipalities during this period.