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1 Peseta Mont-ros
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mont-ros |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Consell Municipal de MONTROS Val una pesseta De curs legal en aquesta localitat EMISSIÓ 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of Montros Voucher One Peseta Legal course in this location Issue 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in red-orange on cream stock, with a bold stepped geometric underprint composed of interlocking rectangular frames filled with repetitive small decorative motifs. The numeral "1" and the denomination legend appear centrally within the layered geometric composition. |
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Mont-ros is a tiny municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Catalonia, and in 1937 it was doing what hundreds of similarly small Republican councils were doing: printing its own fractional emergency currency because the central supply of small change had essentially collapsed under the pressures of the Civil War. The Generalitat had authorized local issues, but authorization was one thing — quality control was another. Güell's press in La Pobla de Segur served several of these micro-municipalities in the area, which is why the printing on Pallars Jussà issues from this period shares a recognizable regional character.
Turró catalogs this as #1603, placing it firmly within the documented Catalan local issues, though surviving examples are rare simply because Mont-ros itself had very few inhabitants to circulate them.