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50 Céntimos Montclar
| Issuer | Junta Administrativa del Submunicipi de Montclar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | JUNTA ADMINISTRATIVA DEL SUBMUNICIPI DE MONTCLAR LA DIPOSITARIA D`AQUEST SUBMUNICIPI PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR 50 Cèntims JUNY DEL 1937 (Translation: Administrative Board of the Submunicipality of Montclar The Depositary of this Submunicipality will pay the bearer 50 Centimos June 1937) |
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| Protection description | Oval violet rubber stamp applied to the reverse, bearing the coat of arms and legend of the Submunicipality of Montclar, serving as the authenticating security feature. |
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Montclar is a tiny settlement in the comarca of Solsonès, Lleida — the kind of place that in peacetime would never have issued its own currency. The Civil War changed that. With Republican-zone coinage hoarded or melted down from mid-1936 onward, hundreds of Catalan municipalities and submunicipal juntas scrambled to print emergency fractional notes to keep local commerce moving. This 50 céntimos piece is exactly that: a wartime stopgap, not a banking instrument.
Imprenta A. Figueres in Tàrrega handled production for several small Lleida-area issues during the same period, which means the physical printing is relatively competent for its scale. The official stamp is the sole security measure — common across Catalan guerra civil issues and, predictably, easy to replicate.