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1 Peseta Maià de Montcal
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Maià de Montcal |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed text in black on light green card stock. The four bars of the Catalan coat of arms appear as a vignette to the left of the denomination inscription. The issuing authority, face value, and serial number are arranged in a simple typographic layout typical of Civil War-era Catalan municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ajuntament - Maià de Montcal (Translation: City Council - Maià de Montcal) |
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Maià de Montcal is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns, it resorted to locally issued paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage left everyday commerce paralyzed. These municipal emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *bitllets locals* phenomenon of 1936–1939 — were authorized under a decree permitting local authorities to issue fractional currency, though enforcement of design or production standards was essentially nonexistent.
The sole security feature is an official municipal stamp, which in practice varied in placement and ink saturation across surviving examples.