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50 Céntimos Monforte
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Monforte |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Gari Mon#934-B |
| Obverse description | Light green letterpress printing with a floral border framing the entire face; the municipal coat of arms appears to the left, with the denomination and legal tender declaration in the central field. All text is in Spanish within a decorative perimeter of floral ornaments. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL MONFORTE Certificado de moneda 50 CÉNTIMOS de curso legal en esta Villa (Translation: Municipal Council Monforte Currency certificate 50 Centimos legal tender in this Town) |
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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.