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50 Céntimos Montblanc
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montblanc |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Montblanc Aquest Ajuntament reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA CENTIMS Montblanc, 8 de Juny del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Montblanc This City Council recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos Montblanc June 8, 1937.) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in deep blue on a yellow underprint, with the issuer name set in bold capitals along the upper margin. The central area carries a dense geometric guilloche pattern flanked by diamond-shaped ornamental panels, within which the large numeral '50' is centred, flanked on either side by the word 'CENTIMS'. Below the guilloche, two lines of text record the authorization of this second issue by the council session of 7 June 1937, with a red serial number and the imprint 'P. MESTRES-MONTBLANC' at lower right. |
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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.