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1 Peseta Montcada i Reixac
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montcada i Reixac |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a landscape vignette of the Asland cement factory, established in the municipality in 1917, rendered in a linear illustrative style. A railway freight car is shown in the foreground, while the prominent Montcada hill — the central element of the local coat of arms — rises in the background. The denomination appears in large numerals and lettering above the vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 PESSETA (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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One of hundreds of emergency municipal issues that flooded Catalonia during 1936–37, when the collapse of small-denomination coinage — accelerated by wartime hoarding and the Republican government's inability to supply adequate fractional currency — forced individual towns to print their own. Montcada i Reixac, a small industrial municipality just north of Barcelona, issued this peseta through Grafos, a Barcelona printing house that had been collectivized under anarcho-syndicalist control following the July 1936 revolution.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period; number 1557 places Montcada i Reixac deep into what was a massive, largely uncoordinated local monetary improvisation.