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50 Céntimos Monistrol
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Monistrol de Montserrat |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red by letterpress, the obverse is divided into a header band bearing the issuer legend 'AJUNTAMENT D. MONISTROL' flanked by zigzag ornamental borders at left and right, with shield-shaped numeral cartouches reading '50' in each upper corner. Below, the municipal coat of arms — an oval shield with heraldic charges — occupies the left portion, while the large denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' dominates the centre, followed by three lines of obligation text. A lower panel contains three manuscript signatures beneath the titles 'L'ALCALDE', 'EL DIPOSITARI', and 'EL SECRETARI', with a serial number at lower left and a further '50' shield cartouche at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red by letterpress, the reverse is dominated by a large central oval cartouche enclosing the denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' in bold numerals and lettering, set against a lightly ruled underprint. The oval is surrounded by an elaborate geometric framework of interlocking zigzag and star-burst ornamental borders that fill the entire field. At the foot of the design, a rectangular banner carries the issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT D. MONISTROL', with the printer's imprint 'CENTRE ADMON. MPAL. EMX. COL.LENT. CASANOVA 55 BARCELONA' printed in small type below it. |
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Monistrol de Montserrat is a small municipality at the foot of the mountain, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War it issued its own fractional currency when Republican Spain's central supply of small change collapsed entirely after 1936. The Centre d'Administració Municipal in Barcelona printed these for dozens of ayuntamientos simultaneously — Turró's cataloguing of such notes reveals just how industrial the process became, with standardized layouts and municipal seals dropped in as variables.
Local issues from villages this small were redeemed or destroyed in bulk after the Nationalist victory in early 1939, and survivor rates are low.