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1 Peseta Montbrió del Camp
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Montbrió del Camp |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note printed in black on thick paper, enclosed within a single denticulated rectangular border. The text, rendered in an italic script typeface, occupies the upper two-thirds of the face and states the issuing authority and promise to pay; below, three manuscript signatures appear beneath their respective role titles — L'Alcalde (left), El Secretari-Interventor (right), and El Dipositari (centre). The printer's imprint 'IMP. DE FERRANDO. – REUS.' is set in small capitals along the bottom margin. |
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| Signature(s) | L'Alcalde: Joan Gavaldà; El Secretari-Interventor: Robert (illegible); El Dipositari: Ramon Rom |
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Montbrió del Camp is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Consell Municipal authorized these notes under the broader framework that permitted local bodies to fill the void left by hoarded and melted coinage. Turró catalogs this issue as #1551, placing it firmly within that documented wave of municipal paper.
Ferrando's print shop in nearby Reus served several surrounding municipalities during this period, which accounts for the relatively professional production quality unusual for a town of this size.