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50 Céntimos Montgat
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montgat (Municipality of Montgat) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette with the local coat of arms of Montgat flanked by the coat of arms of Catalonia, the whole composition framed by maritime motifs including fishing nets, ropes, and pulleys evoking the town's seafaring tradition. Denomination and issuing authority appear in letterpress within the surrounding text. The layout is characteristic of Catalan Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0'50 AJUNTAMENT DE MONTGAT CINQUANTA CÈNTIMS Reintegrable a la Dipositaria Municipal per acord del dia 4 de maig del 1937. De curs obligatori per tot el terme municipal de Montgat (Translation: City Council of Montgat Fifty Centimes Refundable to the Municipal Depository by agreement of May 4, 1937. Mandatory currency throughout the municipality of Montgat.) |
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Montgat is a small coastal town just north of Barcelona, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, its local government issued emergency fractional currency after the Republic's coinage disappeared from circulation almost entirely — hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by wartime disruption. These municipal notes, collectively catalogued under the Catalan emergency issues, were printed by C.A.M. in Barcelona, which handled an enormous volume of such work for surrounding towns during this period.
Turró 1576 is not a rare entry by the standards of the series, but Montgat's issues are less frequently encountered than those of larger neighboring municipalities, reflecting its modest population and correspondingly limited print runs.