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50 Céntimos Maià de Montcal
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Maià de Montcal |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Gràfiques Minerva, Olot, Spain |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream ground with a floral border frame printed in red. A central allegorical vignette repeats the figure of Ceres with torch and sickle, cornucopia, ears of wheat, hammer, and anvil, consistent with the obverse composition but without the full issuing authority text. The denomination is stated in bold red lettering at centre. |
| Reverse lettering | 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: 50 Centimos) |
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Maià de Montcal is a municipality in the Garrotxa comarca with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the 1930s — which makes the decision to issue locally printed emergency currency during the Civil War all the more striking. The Republican government's collapse of central monetary distribution in 1936–37 forced even the smallest Catalan ajuntaments to fill the void with their own paper, and Gràfiques Minerva in Olot became the practical solution for dozens of these micro-issuers across the region.
Turró catalogs this as #1395, situating it within that dense cluster of Garrotxa municipal issues that Minerva churned out in the same period, many sharing compositional elements across different towns' notes.