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0.50 Pesetas Montmeló
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmeló |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Orange underprint of geometric guilloche designs forms the background, with black letterpress text and a double-line rectangular border framing the note. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears in the upper left corner. The text body carries the payment obligation in Catalan, dated May 21, 1937, with a statement of mandatory local circulation. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de Montmeló pagarà al portador la quantitat de 0`50 Pessetes segons acord del 18 de maig del 1937. Montmeló, el 21 de maig del 1937 De curs local obligatori. (Translation: The City Council of Montmeló will pay the bearer the amount of 0.50 Pesetas according to the agreement of May 18, 1937. Montmeló, May 21, 1937. Mandatory local currency.) |
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Montmeló is a small municipality north of Barcelona, and like dozens of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional emergency notes when the Republic's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Generalitat's own sèrie B notes failed to reach many localities fast enough, pushing municipal councils to print their own. Turró catalogues over 1,500 such emissions from Catalonia alone, which gives some sense of how fragmented — and how locally improvised — this monetary moment actually was.
El Secretariat Català printed for several small municipal issuers during this period, working out of Barcelona under wartime conditions.