50 Céntimos Monjos del Penedès

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.