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50 Céntimos Montblanc
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montblanc |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 90 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown on plain paper, with the issuer name underlined by a double rule at the top and the municipal coat of arms of Montblanc positioned centrally above the main text. The body of the note carries the full authorizing inscription in Catalan within a simple perimeter frame, identifying this as a bearer obligation of the City Council. The date of issue, 8 June 1937, appears within the body text. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTBLANC CÈNTIMS 50 CÈNTIMS SEGONA EMISSIÓ ACORDADA PER L'AJUNTAMENT EN SESSIÓ DEL DIA 7 DE JUNY DEL 1937 (Translation: City Council of Montblanc Centimos 50 Centimos Second issue agreed by the City Council in session on June 7, 1937) |
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Montblanc is a small medieval walled town in the Conca de Barberà comarca of Tarragona province, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional emergency paper when the Republic's small coinage vanished from circulation after 1936 — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by the chaos of wartime supply. The Generalitat had authorized local authorities to fill the gap, producing a flood of municipal notes across Catalonia that varied wildly in printing quality and official seriousness.
Turró 1540 is among the more obscure entries in that canon. Municipal issues from small inland towns in this denomination were printed in low quantities and circulated narrowly — often only within the issuing municipality itself — which paradoxically makes survivors scarcer than better-documented urban issues.