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1 Peseta Montblanc
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montblanc (Municipality of Montblanc) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 47 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 AJUNTAMENT DE MONTBLANC Aquest Ajuntament reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA Montblanc, 1 de Desembre del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Montblanc This City Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta Montblanc December 1, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The central motif is the ancient coat of arms of Montblanc rendered as a carved stone panel set within a rusticated ashlar wall, printed in red on an unadorned ground. The denomination "1 PTA" appears in large bold letterpress type at both the left and the right margins, rotated vertically. A serial number in black is printed at the lower centre, and a small printer's imprint reading "Balanyà" appears at the lower right. |
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Montblanc is a small walled medieval town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it resorted to printing its own emergency fractional currency after the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely in 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply destroyed in the revolutionary chaos. These locally issued notes, known collectively as moneda de guerra or paper moneda, were technically illegal under central Republican banking law but were tolerated out of necessity.
Turró 1544 is among the more obscure municipal emissions, with no documented print run figures surviving.