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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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| Reverse description | Entirely printed in red, the reverse is dominated by a large central guilloche rosette enclosing the bold numeral denomination '0'50' above 'PESSETES', set within a lobed cartouche with interlocking geometric latticework filling the background. The issuer's name 'AJUNTAMENT DE MONTGAT' arcs across the upper portion of the cartouche, and a small serial number panel is printed at the lower centre. |
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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.