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25 Céntimos Mont-Roig
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Mont-roig (Municipality of Mont-roig del Camp, Province of Tarragona) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Mont-roig VAL per VINT-I-CINC céntims al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi Juliol del 1937 (Translation: City Council of Mont-roig Valid for Twenty-Five Centimos for the sole purpose of facilitating change July 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries an overall geometric guilloche pattern printed in olive-green, composed of repeating interlaced oval and lozenge motifs arranged in horizontal bands across the full surface of the note, with no additional text or vignette. |
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Mont-roig del Camp issued its own small-denomination paper currency during the Spanish Civil War under the Republican government's emergency authorization allowing municipalities to produce local scrip to address the catastrophic coin shortage of 1936–37. Silver and copper had been hoarded or melted almost immediately after the war began, paralyzing small transactions across the Republican zone. Hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own solutions, and the Turró catalog documents the variation obsessively — the suffix "e" here indicates a specific variant within the Mont-roig 25 céntimos series, distinguished by some typographic or paper detail from its siblings.
Mont-roig is better known internationally as the village where Joan Miró spent formative summers, though that connection has no bearing on the note itself.