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50 Céntimos Monforte
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Monforte |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 81 × 58 mm |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red throughout, the reverse carries a multi-rule and rope-pattern geometric border enclosing a central guilloche medallion bearing the denomination numeral '50' and 'CÉNTIMOS' in a circular arrangement, flanked by symmetrical scroll cartouches. The issuer name 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears at the top and 'MONFORTE' at the base in bold letterpress capitals. A handwritten serial number is applied in black ink to the left of the central vignette. |
| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL 50 CÉNTIMOS MONFORTE (Translation: Municipal Council 50 Centimos Monforte) |
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Monforte de Lemos, a small Galician town, fell under Nationalist control early in the Civil War, yet municipal emergency issues like this one continued to circulate locally out of sheer necessity — the Republican peseta was distrusted, silver had vanished from trade, and the fractional coinage needed to make change simply did not exist. Municipal councils across loyalist and Nationalist zones alike printed their own cartones and vales to fill the gap.
The Gari Mon catalogue distinguishes two varieties for this denomination; the B suffix here indicates a second printing or design state, suggesting demand outlasted the initial run.