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1 Peseta Montmaneu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmaneu |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed entirely in red letterpress, with a dashed rectangular border running close to all four edges. The issuer name and denomination text are set in bold block capitals across three lines, filling the face in a simple typographic layout without vignette or guilloche ornament. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted verso on plain card stock, validated by a circular municipal rubber stamp in violet ink bearing the arms and inscription of the Ajuntament de Montmaneu, with a hand-stamped serial number in black ink applied to the left of centre. |
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Montmaneu is a tiny municipality in the comarca of l'Anoia, Catalonia, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s. The fact that it issued its own emergency currency in 1937 places it among the hundreds of Catalan local authorities that printed moneda local during the Civil War — not out of ambition, but because the Republican government had lost practical control of small-denomination coinage supply and municipalities had no alternative.
The thick card stock was a deliberate choice across nearly all Catalan municipal issues of this period, intended to extend usable life in local trade. Turró's cataloguing of this piece as #1579 situates it within a well-documented but enormous series.