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1 Peseta Montmany-Figaró
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmany-Figaró |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Multicoloured emergency voucher with the local coat of arms at centre, comprising red and blue fish beneath a crown, flanked to the right by a sickle, an ear of wheat, and a five-pointed star as a symbol of liberty. The design is printed in a simple letterpress style typical of Civil War-era Spanish municipal issues. The denomination and issuing authority appear in text above and below the central vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse is essentially blank, printed on plain unadorned paper with no design elements, text, or ornamental borders, consistent with hastily produced Civil War-era municipal emergency currency. |
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Montmany-Figaró is a small municipality in the Vallès Oriental comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly minor local authorities during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper currency when Republican-controlled regions faced a near-total collapse of small-denomination coinage. These municipally issued notes — collectively catalogued under the billetes locales heading — were a purely practical response to hoarding and silver flight, not a political statement by any individual town. The Generalitat de Catalunya sanctioned the practice in 1937, which is why so many of these tiny issues share the same year.
Turró 1581 is among the less documented of the Catalan municipal series; surviving examples are scarce simply because the issuing population was small and redemption rates after the Nationalist victory were effectively nil.