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50 Céntimos Montornès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montornès del Vallès |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the local municipal coat of arms, flanked by two allegorical figures: at left, a male worker set against a factory background with a gear wheel, winged helmet, and caduceus symbolising industry and commerce; at right, a peasant figure holding ears of wheat and a sickle, representing agriculture. The composition reflects the Republican wartime iconography of labour solidarity. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE MONTORNÈS AQUEST AJUNTAMENT PAGARÀ AL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE CINQUANTA CENTIMS MONTORNÈS 1 DE MAIG DEL 1937 50 CTS. (Translation: City Council of Montornès This City Council will pay the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos Montornès, May 1, 1937 50 Centimos) |
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One of thousands of emergency fractional notes — known collectively as "moneda local" or "vales" — printed by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War after Republican authorities failed to maintain adequate small-denomination coinage in circulation. The Ajuntament de Montornès del Vallès, a small town in the Vallès Oriental comarca northeast of Barcelona, turned to Gràfiques Unificades in nearby Granollers for production, a printer that handled similar commissions for several surrounding municipalities during the same period.
Granollers itself was bombed in June 1938 — one of the deadliest air raids of the war — but by then most of these local issues had already served their brief purpose and been withdrawn.