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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 lettering | 50 CÈNTIMS AJUNTAMENT D. MONISTROL CENTRE ADMON. MPAL. EMX. COL.LENT. CASANOVA 55 BARCELONA (Translation: 50 Centimos City Council of Monistrol — Municipal Administrative Centre, Casanova 55, Barcelona) |
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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.