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50 Céntimos Mont-ral
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Mont-ral |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 108 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain ground printed in dark green letterpress, with the denomination numeral '50' and abbreviation 'Cts' at centre, accompanied by the full issuing authority inscription. A dotted or stippled underprint background provides a subtle texture, and the design is contained within a triple-rule rectangular border. |
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| Signature(s) | J. Vallverau (L'Alcalde) and Enric Isern (El Dipositari) |
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Mont-ral is a small municipality in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona, with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of similarly tiny Catalan municipalities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republican government's coin shortage — caused partly by silver hoarding and partly by wartime metal demands — left rural communities without any viable means of making change. These local emissions were authorized under a framework that allowed ajuntaments to print their own paper fractions, theoretically redeemable against future coinage.
Turró catalogs over 1,600 such emissions. Mont-ral's is among the more obscure.