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10 Céntimos Montferri
| Issuer | Montferri, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The Catalan coat of arms appears as a central vignette enclosed within a geometric border, with the overall note framed by linear guilloche-style designs. The issuer name is underlined beneath the central device. Text inscriptions in Catalan are arranged above and below the central vignette, stating the issuing authority, denomination, purpose, and date of issue. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in brown letterpress with a geometric patterned background serving as an underprint. The issuer name appears underlined at the top, with the denomination numeral and text centered below within the simple decorative frame. |
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Montferri is a small municipality in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper money in 1937 to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. The Republican government's decree authorizing local emergency currency gave administrative cover to what was already happening spontaneously across the zone — municipal councils printing whatever denominations they needed through whatever printer was available.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a substantial number of these municipal issues from the surrounding province. The sheer volume of similar commissions they processed that year makes plate mix-ups and reused design elements a known hazard when attributing pieces in this series.