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50 Céntimos Montellà i Martinet
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Montellà i Martinet |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1569 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE MONTELLÀ I MARTINET 50 CÈNTIMS Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal, fins el 31 de desembre del 1938, per acord del dia 17 d'Octubre del 1937 De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Montellà i Martinet (Translation: Municipal Council of Montellà i Martinet 50 Centimos Refundable to the Caixa Municipal, until December 31, 1938, by agreement of October 17, 1937. Mandatory course throughout the municipality of Montellà i Martinet) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL MONTELLÀ I MARTINET 50 CÈNTIMS (Translation: Municipal Council Montellà i Martinet 50 Centimos) |
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Montellà i Martinet is a small municipality in the Catalan Pyrenees, and like hundreds of similarly modest townships during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed almost entirely. The hoarding and melting of copper and silver after July 1936 left everyday transactions — market purchases, wages, change — functionally impossible without local paper substitutes.
The C.A.M. press in Barcelona handled an enormous volume of these Catalan municipal issues, which is why the printing quality tends to be consistent even for the smallest villages. Scarcity here is purely a function of the issuing population, not production runs.