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25 Centimos Monistrol
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Monistrol de Montserrat (Municipality of Monistrol de Montserrat) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Technique | Printed |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONISTROL 25 CÈNTIMS (Translation: City Council of Monistrol 25 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Circular blue-tinted cardboard surface featuring a central heraldic shield representing the coat of arms of Catalonia, surmounted by a stylized rendering of the Montserrat mountain range. Three five-pointed stars are positioned along the upper arc of the design. The circular legend 'AJUNTAMENT DE MONISTROL' is inscribed along the rim, and a dotted border frames the entire composition, consistent with the obverse design vocabulary of this emergency wartime issue. |
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Monistrol de Montserrat issued these cardboard emergency notes-cum-coins in 1937 as the Republican zone's metallic coinage evaporated — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. Dozens of Catalan municipalities improvised their own fractional currency that year, each piece technically illegal under central Republican monetary authority but tolerated out of necessity. The cardboard construction was not improvisation for its own sake; aluminum, copper, and brass had been redirected toward the war effort.
The Turró and Gari catalogues treat these as cartró (cardboard) issues distinct from the paper emergency notes of the same period. Survival rates are surprisingly low given the volume originally produced — the material degrades easily, and most saw hard daily use before the Nationalist occupation of Catalonia rendered them worthless in 1939.