0.50 Pesetas Mont-ros

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.