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50 Céntimos Montblanc
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montblanc (Municipality of Montblanc) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in blue letterpress throughout, the note is enclosed within a rectangular perimeter frame with a double-rule border. The central field carries the full municipal authorization text in Catalan, with the issuer name underlined by a double rule. The typography is spare and functional, consistent with wartime emergency issue production. |
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| Reverse lettering | 50 cèntims (Translation: 50 Centimos) |
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Montblanc, the walled medieval town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona, was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities that issued emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by wartime disruption. The Ajuntament contracted locally with Tipografia Monmany, which printed these notes in town rather than sending work to Barcelona.
Local production kept the series hyperlocal in distribution and accountability. Turró catalogues this as #1538 within a massive taxonomy of Republican municipal issues, most of which circulated only within the boundaries of the issuing municipality itself.