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1 Peseta Montgat
| Issuer | Montgat, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue, centered on a large numeral "1" set within a cloud-shaped guilloche vignette, itself enclosed within an ornate cartouche of interlocking geometric lathe-work patterns. The issuer name arcs across the upper border and the denomination is lettered below the central numeral. A serial number in red is printed within a plain rectangular panel at the foot of the design. |
| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTGAT 1 PESSETA (Translation: City Council of Montgat 1 Peseta) |
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Montgat is a small coastal municipality just north of Barcelona, and its decision to issue local paper money in 1937 was a direct consequence of the acute coin shortage that plagued Republican-controlled Catalonia during the Civil War. The central government's inability to keep fractional coinage in circulation forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities — many with populations in the low thousands — to print their own emergency currency. These notes were legally valid only within the issuing municipality, which made them nearly worthless the moment you crossed a municipal boundary.
The printer, C.A.M., was a Barcelona municipal press that handled a significant volume of these local emissions, giving notes from different towns an occasionally similar typographic character despite distinct municipal designs.