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1 Peseta Montbrió del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Montbrió del Camp |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 45 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in reddish-brown letterpress on plain paper, the obverse carries the full payment text of the issuing authority in italic script across three lines, with the denomination "UNA PESSETA" in larger bold type at centre. The entire face is enclosed within a single dotted rectangular border. Multiple handwritten signatures of municipal officials appear in the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | El Consell Municipal de Montbrió del Camp, pagarà al portador UNA PESSETA. Montbrió del Camp 15 d'Octubre del 1937. (Translation: The Municipal Council of Montbrió del Camp will pay the bearer One Peseta. Montbrió del Camp, 15 October 1937.) |
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Montbrió del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona comarca, and this 1 Peseta note is one of dozens of hyper-local emergency issues produced by Catalan town councils during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to supply small-denomination coinage left communities effectively monetarily stranded. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipal issues in 1937, and hundreds of ajuntaments and consells took up the permission with varying degrees of printing sophistication.
Turró 1554 places this among the more obscure municipal issues — Montbrió's wartime population was well under a thousand, meaning original print runs were correspondingly tiny.