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50 Céntimos Montmaneu
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montmaneu |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 56 × 34 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTMANEU Val per 50 cèntims (Translation: City Council of Montmaneu Voucher of 50 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted verso on aged cream card stock, overlaid with a circular municipal dry stamp reading 'AJUNTAMENT DE MONTMANEU' around its circumference. A typeset serial number is applied in black ink at centre, and a handwritten control notation appears in the upper right corner. |
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Montmaneu is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Conca de Barberà, and its wartime scrip belongs to the vast ecosystem of moneda local that flooded Catalonia after July 1936, when the collapse of normal commerce and the hoarding of metal coinage left small communities to fend for themselves. The Generalitat eventually tried to regulate this proliferation, but hundreds of ayuntamientos had already printed their own solutions before any oversight arrived.
At Turró 1580, this 50 céntimos piece falls into the thicker card stock category common to notes produced without access to proper banknote paper — local stationers, print shops, even schoolroom suppliers served as improvisers. Montmaneu's total wartime population was well under a thousand, so original print runs were almost certainly small.