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50 Céntimos Monjos del Penedès
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Monjos del Penedès |
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| Year | 1936 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MONJOS DEL PENEDÈS reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CENTIMS 50 CMS. Nº [serial number] El Depositari El President L'Interventor (Translation: The Municipal Council of Monjos del Penedès recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimes 50 Centimes) |
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| Signature(s) | El Depositari: Anna (Cona?), El President: Pere Fontenals, L'Interventor: José Mora |
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Monjos del Penedès is a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan towns in the summer of 1936, it issued its own fractional paper currency after the military uprising drained metallic coin from circulation almost overnight. These municipal emission notes — known collectively as "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — were produced under Republican local authority as a purely practical response to the small-change crisis, not as any ideological statement.
The three signatories here — Depositari, President, and Interventor — follow the standard municipal accountability structure. The Depositari signature reads tentatively as "Anna (Cona?)", which suggests the cataloger was working from a worn or faint impression. Turró 1532 places this firmly within the documented Catalan municipal issues of the Civil War period.