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1 Peseta Montellà i Martinet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Montellà i Martinet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the municipal coat of arms within a circular frame enclosing a view of the Castle of Montellà, with the Sierra del Cadí ridge rendered along the upper portion of the composition. Surrounding text in Catalan carries the full issuing authority legend, the date of authorising agreement, and the terms of redemption. The note is executed in a straightforward letterpress style typical of Catalan wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MONTELLÀ I MARTINET UNA PESSETA Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal, fins el 31 de desembre del 1938, per acord del dia 17 d'Octubre del 1937. De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Montellà i Martinet (Translation: Municipal Council of Montellà i Martinet One Peseta Refundable to the Municipal Treasury until December 31, 1938, by agreement of October 17, 1937. Mandatory legal tender throughout the municipality of Montellà i Martinet) |
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Montellà i Martinet is a small municipality in the Cerdanya comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar communities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya officially authorized these local emissions, but design and production were left entirely to individual councils — which is why the C.A.M. in Barcelona ended up printing notes for villages that had no printing infrastructure of their own.
Turró catalogs this emission as #1568, placing it within a documented but thinly circulated series. Most Cerdanya municipal notes were redeemed or simply discarded as the war turned; survivors are scarce precisely because nobody thought to preserve them.