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1 Peseta Montmeló
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmeló |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Light green underprint of fine geometric designs forms the background, with the text block rendered in brown letterpress within a double-rule perimeter border. The coat of arms of Catalonia is positioned at the upper left corner, serving as the sole vignette on an otherwise typographically composed face. |
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| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament de Montmeló pagarà al portador la quantitat de 1 Pesseta segons acord del 18 de maig del 1937. Montmeló, el 21 de maig del 1937 De curs local obligatori. (Translation: The City Council of Montmeló will pay the bearer the amount of 1 Peseta according to the agreement of May 18, 1937. Montmeló, May 21, 1937. Mandatory local currency.) |
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Montmeló was a small municipality northeast of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional paper currency in 1937 to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government had authorized local emergency issues, but oversight was loose — design quality, print runs, and redemption mechanisms varied enormously from one town to the next.
Turró catalogs this as #1586, placing it within the dense mid-series range of documented Catalan municipal emissions. Survival rates for these small-denomination wartime locals are unpredictable; many were redeemed and pulped, others simply discarded when Franco's peseta displaced them after 1939.