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5 Céntimos Montoro
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Montoro |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typographically printed in red on plain cream paper stock, the note is framed by a single rectangular border with a double horizontal rule below the issuer inscription. The legend "Ayuntamiento de Montoro" appears in the upper portion in bold serif lettering, while the denomination "5 Céntimos" is set in large display type occupying the lower half of the note. The overall design is austere and utilitarian, consistent with wartime municipal emergency issue production. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted, the reverse presents the bare cream-coloured paper surface with no text, imagery, or decorative elements of any kind. |
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Montoro is a municipality in Córdoba province, and like hundreds of Spanish towns during the Civil War, its ayuntamiento issued small-denomination emergency paper to address the acute shortage of coins that followed the Republican government's monetary disruption of 1936–37. The 5 céntimos was the smallest practical unit, and notes at this denomination were often printed in runs of just a few hundred on whatever stock was available locally.
At under 5 cm wide, these municipal fractional notes suffered attrition fast — folded into palms, soaked through, discarded once the emergency passed. The Gari catalog remains the authoritative reference for Spanish Civil War local issues, and the Mon#962-C designation places this within a documented Montoro series, though surviving specimens are infrequent.