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50 Céntimos Mont-roig
| Issuer | Mont-roig del Camp, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark blue on a cream paper ground, with a fine geometric guilloche underprint at centre. The municipal issuer's name appears in capital letters along the top, with the denomination numeral and text at left. A serial number and series letter are positioned at centre-right, and a circular official municipality stamp is applied in ink over the face. The entire design is enclosed within a rectangular border composed of a repeating dash-and-rule frame. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in blue on plain cream paper, bearing a simple typeset layout within a rectangular ruled border. The issuer name and denomination are set in letterpress type, with a brief statutory text explaining the note's purpose as small change and its date of issue. |
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Mont-roig del Camp is best known internationally as the village where Joan Miró spent summers and drew deep creative inspiration — but this note has nothing to do with him. It belongs instead to the chaotic world of Spanish Civil War municipal paper money, the moneda local phenomenon that emerged after the Republic's small-change supply collapsed in 1936–37. With silver coins hoarded and the central government unable to keep fractional currency in circulation, hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own emergency fraccionals under authorization from the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Turró catalogues over 1,600 such issues; Mont-roig's series is among the smaller and less-documented ones, which makes surviving examples genuinely difficult to locate.