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1 Peseta Montblanc
| Issuer | Montblanc, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Dark brown letterpress on yellow-ochre paper, with the issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE MONTBLANC' across the upper portion underlined by a double rule. The central vignette presents the numeral '1' flanked symmetrically by the denomination 'PESSETA' on each side, all enclosed within an ornamental border of interlocking geometric and stippled guilloche motifs. A two-line legend below records the second-emission resolution date, with a red serial number at lower left and the printer's imprint at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The central face value numeral is set within a rectangular frame and surrounded by an ornamental border composed of repeating geometric motifs, rendered in dark brown letterpress on plain paper stock. The denomination 'PESSETA' appears twice flanking the numeral, with the issuer name and emission details arranged in the surrounding register. The overall design is typographic with no pictorial vignette. |
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Montblanc is a small walled town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it resorted to printing its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply worn out of the system by 1937. These local emergency emissions, collectively termed "moneda de paper municipal," were technically authorized under a June 1937 decree by the Generalitat de Catalunya, though many were already in circulation before the paperwork caught up.
Imprenta Mestres was the town's own print shop, which kept production entirely local.