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25 Céntimos Monjos del Penedès
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Monjos del Penedès |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black on buff paper, enclosed within a decorative dotted outer border and an inner floral guilloche frame. The municipal coat of arms within a triangular vignette appears to the right, inscribed 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL / ELS MONJOS DEL PENEDÈS'. A horizontal cartouche at centre carries the denomination 'VINTICINC CENTIMS' flanked by pointed ornamental rules, with a circular '25 CMS' medallion at lower left. Three manuscript signatures appear below, attributed to El Depositari, El President, and L'Interventor respectively, alongside a handwritten serial number. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MONJOS DEL PENEDÈS reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de VINTICINC CENTIMS 25 CMS. El Depositari / El President / L'Interventor (Translation: The Municipal Council of Monjos del Penedès recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Twenty-five Centims 25 Centims) |
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Monjos del Penedès is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and this 25 céntimos note is among the local emergency currency — known collectively as "moneda local de necessitat" — issued by hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after small-denomination coinage virtually disappeared from circulation in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coin supply forced even the most modest town councils to print their own scrip.
Turró catalogues over 1,500 such issuers. The sheer number of these local emissions means surviving singles are common; complete municipal sets are another matter entirely.