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25 Céntimos Montmeló
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmeló |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 81 × 50 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face is set within a perimetral border of stylized leaves rendered in letterpress. The background incorporates the four vertical bars of the Catalan coat of arms as a tonal underprint. Central text block carries the issuing authority, denomination, and the authorizing municipal resolution dated 14 September 1937. |
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| Reverse description | The back is enclosed within the same stylized leaf perimetral frame as the face. A vignette of trees forms the background underprint. The denomination and mandatory circulation statement appear in Catalan in the central text field. |
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One of thousands of small-denomination emergency notes — *vals* — produced by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after Republican Spain's coin shortage became acute in 1936–37. Hoarding of metallic currency, combined with wartime disruption of the Mint, left towns like Montmeló issuing their own fractional paper simply to keep local commerce moving. The Ajuntament had no banking infrastructure behind these; they were backed by nothing more formal than municipal authority.
El Secretariat Català printed for numerous local governments across Catalonia during this period, producing short runs that rarely survived the war in quantity. Montmeló itself is a small town north of Barcelona, and its issues were never widely distributed beyond the immediate area.