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25 Céntimos Montagut de Fluvià
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montagut de Fluvià |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in black on a green ground, with the municipal coat of arms at upper left and a central agricultural vignette of a peasant plowing a field with a yoke of two oxen. Inscriptions in Catalan identify the issuing authority and denomination, with a note citing the council agreement of 26 August 1937. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress on a green ground, with the coat of arms of Catalonia flanked by vignettes of industrial chimneys and a traditional Catalan farmhouse (masia), together with a figure of a Popular Army soldier bearing a rifle. The mandatory local currency status is affirmed by the surrounding inscriptions in Catalan. |
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Montagut de Fluvià is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan villages during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when the Republic's coinage supply collapsed in 1936–37. These local emergency notes — moneda local or bitllets municipals — filled a genuine transactional void; hoarding and wartime disruption had stripped small-denomination metal from everyday commerce almost entirely.
Imprenta Bonet in Olot served as the regional printer for many Garrotxa municipalities, which is why notes from neighboring towns in this series share typographic DNA. The Turró catalogue remains the primary reference for this material, and low-population issuers like Montagut command attention from specialists precisely because documented survival rates are slim.