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0.50 Pesetas Mont-ros
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mont-ros |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de MONTROS Val 0`50 pessetes De curs legal en aquesta localitat Emissió 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Montros Voucher 0.50 Pesetas Legal course in this location Issue 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on cream card stock, the reverse presents a bold stepped geometric border composed of two concentric rectangular frames filled with small repeating ornamental tiles. The numeral '0'50' and the denomination text are printed in red at centre, with a faint violet control stamp visible at right. |
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Mont-ros is a tiny municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and by 1937 it had fewer than a few hundred inhabitants — which makes the decision to issue local emergency currency both administratively remarkable and practically absurd. During the Civil War, the Republican zone suffered acute shortages of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936, prompting hundreds of Catalan municipalities, however minuscule, to print their own fractional notes under the shelter of Generalitat decree. Mont-ros was among the smallest to do so.
Printed by Josep Güell in nearby La Pobla de Segur, the note shares a printer with several other Pallars Jussà municipals from the same period — a regional convenience that gave these remote valley towns access to at least passable production quality on thick card stock.