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50 Céntimos Montferri
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montferri (Municipality of Montferri) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 81 × 42 mm |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a double linear rectangular border with floral corner ornaments and geometric linear designs along the margins. At centre, the coat of arms of Catalonia appears within a decorative surround, with the issuer name underlined above. The text is arranged in multiple lines across the face of the note in a straightforward letterpress style. |
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| Reverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTFERRI 50 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Montferri 50 Centimos) |
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Montferri is a village in the Alt Camp comarca of Tarragona province with a population that barely reached a few hundred in the 1930s. During the Civil War, the Republican government authorized municipalities — down to the smallest — to issue their own fractional emergency currency when the hoarding of coins created a near-total breakdown in small-transaction commerce. Thousands of these ajuntament notes flooded Catalonia between 1936 and 1939, and Imprenta Solé of Tarragona printed a significant share of the provincial issues.
The sheer number of issuing bodies means collector interest is highly localized, but notes from villages this small tend to survive in genuinely low quantities — the redemption pool after the Nationalist victory was tiny, and many were simply discarded.