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25 Céntimos Maià de Montcal
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Maià de Montcal |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the obverse is framed by a decorative floral border enclosing a central allegorical vignette of a seated female figure representing the goddess Ceres, holding a torch and a sickle, accompanied by a cornucopia, ears of wheat, and symbols of industry in the form of a hammer and anvil. Issuer and denomination inscriptions are arranged around the vignette in letterpress. The note is dated September 1937 and carries the designation as mandatory local currency. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, also printed in blue, repeats the decorative floral frame enclosing the central allegorical vignette of the goddess Ceres with torch and sickle, cornucopia, ears of wheat, and hammer and anvil motifs. The denomination is inscribed in the centre in bold letterpress type, with an otherwise plain and uncluttered layout. |
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Maià de Montcal is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it was forced to print its own fractional currency after the Republican government's coin shortage left local commerce effectively paralyzed. The Generalitat had sanctioned emergency municipal issues from late 1936, which gave legal cover to what was otherwise a chaotic patchwork of hyperlocal scrip.
Gràfiques Minerva in Olot handled a significant share of these Garrotxa-region emergency notes — the firm was well-positioned geographically and turned around commissions quickly for multiple nearby ajuntaments during the same period.