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1 Peseta Montornès
| Issuer | Montornès del Vallès, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Gràfiques Unificades, Granollers, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the municipal coat of arms, flanked by two allegorical figures: at left, a standing industrial worker set against a factory backdrop incorporating a gear wheel, winged helmet, and caduceus; at right, a peasant figure holding ears of wheat and a sickle. The composition unites industrial and agrarian Republican symbolism in a wartime emergency issue context. |
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| Reverse lettering | El preu del nostre heroic sacrifici serà la llibertat i el benestar del món. (Translation: The price of our heroic sacrifice will be the freedom and well-being of the world.) |
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One of hundreds of municipal emergency notes issued across Catalonia during the Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain small-denomination coinage in circulation forced individual towns to print their own scrip. Montornès del Vallès, a small industrial municipality in the Vallès Oriental, issued this peseta through Gràfiques Unificades — a Granollers print shop that produced emergency currency for numerous nearby municipalities during 1937, making regional attribution by printing style alone unreliable without the issuer text.
The thick card stock was a practical choice: thinner paper deteriorated rapidly in daily commercial use, and most of these local issues were expected to circulate only until Madrid or Barcelona restored a functioning small-change supply. Many never were formally redeemed.