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1 Peseta Montferri
| Issuer | Montferri, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a double-line rectangular border enclosing a guilloche underprint of interlocking diamond and dot motifs printed in pale red. The issuer name appears in bold uppercase letterpress along the upper margin, with the denomination in Catalan displayed at left and the series designation at upper right. A serial number in large numerals with an asterisk separator is centred across the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTFERRI UNA pesseta (Translation: City Council of Montferri One Peseta) |
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Montferri is a village in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. Like hundreds of other small Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency in 1937 when Republican Spain's central supply of coin collapsed and local commerce ground to a halt without small-denomination change. These municipal emissions — collectively catalogued in the thousands across Catalonia — were authorized under the Generalitat and printed by whatever local press was available.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a significant volume of these small-town issues from the surrounding province, making them one of the more recognizable printers in the Turró catalog for this region.