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1 Peseta Montmany-Figaró
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmany (Figaró) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | To the left, the local coat of arms of Montmany-Figaró — charged with a fish motif and surmounted by a crown — is printed in conjunction with the coat of arms of Catalonia to the right. The central text block carries the municipal issuing authority and the promise-to-pay legend, dated 1 April 1937, with the denomination numeral at lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTMANY (FIGARÓ) Aquest Ajuntament pagará al portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA Montmany, 1 Abril 1937 1 pta (Translation: City Council Montmany (Figaró) This City Council will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Montmany, April 1, 1937 1 Peseta) |
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Montmany-Figaró is a tiny municipality in the Vallès Oriental comarca, and its decision to issue emergency paper money in 1937 reflects the near-total breakdown of small-denomination coinage across Republican-held Catalonia during the Civil War. Hundreds of Catalan ajuntaments did the same, many printing notes so small in quantity that survival rates are extremely low. Gràfiques Unificades in Granollers handled production for a number of these local issues — the Granollers workshop was one of the more active emergency printers in the region.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for Catalan Civil War sèrie B issues, and this note's assigned number places it within a well-documented but genuinely scarce group.