Catalog
0.50 Pesetas Mont-ros
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Montros |
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| Printer | Imprenta Josep Güell, La Pobla de Segur, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress design printed entirely in blue on cream card stock. Two horizontal guilloche-patterned bands border the upper and lower edges of the note. The issuing authority legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MONTROS' is set in bold capitals across the centre, with the face value 'Val 0'50 Ptes.' in large display type below. The printer's imprint 'Imp.-Güell-Pobla de Segur' appears at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream card stock with a typeset letterpress design in blue. A pair of parallel horizontal rules frames the central face-value numeral '0'50 Ptes.' rendered in large, bold display type, occupying the full width of the note between the rules. |
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Montros is a tiny village in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Catalonia — during the Civil War, dozens of municipalities this small issued their own emergency fractional currency when the Republic's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal (the locally elected council, often controlled by anarchist or left-republican committees in this region) commissioned Josep Güell's print shop in nearby La Pobla de Segur to produce the notes. Güell was a local commercial printer, not a specialist in security printing, which is reflected in the rudimentary production.
Turró catalogues this as #1608. Given Montros's tiny population, surviving examples are genuinely rare.