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5 Pesetas Montoro
| Issuer | Ayuntamiento de Montoro (Comité del Frente Popular) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress text on a red underprint, with geometric and floral guilloche border running along the perimeter. The central field carries the issuing authority, denomination, and mandatory circulation clause in multiple lines. The overall composition is stark and utilitarian, consistent with wartime emergency issue printing. |
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| Reverse description | Black letterpress text set within a single-rule rectangular frame with diamond cornerpieces, printed over a red stippled dot underprint that extends across the entire field. A faint vignette is visible in the upper portion of the underprint. The text is arranged in three distinct propagandist paragraphs addressing peasants, women, and children. |
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Montoro is a small municipality in the province of Córdoba, and like hundreds of Spanish towns it issued its own emergency paper currency during the Civil War after the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed entirely. These local emissions — called billetes de necesidad or emergency notes — were produced under the authority of whichever body controlled the town at the time; here, the Frente Popular committee.
The Gari catalogue reference places this within a well-documented but numerically vast category. Condition varies wildly across surviving examples, as wartime municipal printing was often done on whatever stock was available, and paper quality suffered accordingly.