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10 Céntimos Montoro
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Montoro (Municipality of Montoro) |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on cream paper by letterpress, the note carries a simple typographic layout with the issuer's name 'Ayuntamiento de Montoro' across the upper register and the denomination '10' to the left paired with 'céntimos' to the right, divided by twin horizontal rules. The entire composition is enclosed within a continuous scalloped border of repeating semicircular units forming a decorative geometric frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left blank on plain cream paper stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements. |
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Montoro is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it resorted to locally issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War years when Republican-zone small change effectively collapsed. These tiny municipal notes — often printed on whatever stock was available, sometimes by local printers with no banknote experience — filled the gap left by hoarded coins. The Gari catalogue documents enormous variation in paper quality, ink color, and overprint placement within a single municipality's issues, and Montoro is no exception.
At 45 × 32 mm, this is among the smallest paper money issued in Spain's municipal series. Survival is partly a function of size — they were easily lost, discarded, or destroyed.