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5 Céntimos Montblanc
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Vila de Montblanc |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note in green ink, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The municipal coat of arms of Montblanc is positioned to the left, with the issuing authority legend and denomination text arranged across the face of the note. The overall layout is typical of Spanish Civil War-era local emergency issues, with plain typeset lettering and no pictorial vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE LA VILA DE MONTBLANC ASSISTENCIA SOCIAL VAL per 5 cts. de QUEVIURES (Translation: City Council of the village of Montblanc Voucher for 5 Centimos of groceries) |
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Montblanc is a medieval walled town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities it was forced to produce its own fractional paper money during 1936–37 when the Civil War drained metallic coin from circulation almost entirely. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized local emergency issues, but production quality and design were entirely a local affair — hence the use of Imprenta Gràfics, a press operating within the town itself.
Turró catalogs well over a thousand distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. That this one carries a Turró number in the 1500s places it among the more obscure entries in that corpus.