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1 Peseta Montmeló
| Issuer | Montmeló, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta El Secretariat Català, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | The face of the note is composed entirely of letterpress text within a perimetral border of stylized leaves. The denomination and issuing authority are set in varying typefaces, while the Catalan four-bar coat of arms is rendered as a watermark-like underprint formed by the background color. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 L'AJUNTAMENT DE MONTMELÓ Reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA Segons acord del 14 Setembre del 1937 MONTMELÓ. Setembre 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Montmeló Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta According to the agreement of September 14, 1937 Montmeló. September 1937) |
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Montmeló is a small municipality north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the Republican government's July 1936 decree authorizing local emergency emissions. The Generalitat had effectively lost control of small-change supply almost immediately after the military uprising, and municipalities filled the vacuum themselves. Turró catalogues these emissions exhaustively; #1588 places Montmeló firmly within the dense cluster of 1937 Barcelona-printed provincial notes.
El Secretariat Català handled a significant volume of these municipal commissions, which is why the printing quality across otherwise unrelated towns can look strikingly similar.