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1 Peseta Montagut de Fluvià
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Montagut de Fluvià |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 101 × 63 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on a dark yellow ground, the obverse carries the municipal coat of arms at upper left alongside a pastoral vignette of a peasant plowing a field with two oxen. Inscriptions in Catalan are arranged around the central design, with the issuing authority and denomination stated in full. The note records its authorization by municipal agreement in the lower legend. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on a dark yellow ground, the reverse carries the coat of arms of Catalonia alongside a composite vignette incorporating industrial factories with smoking chimneys, a traditional Catalan farmhouse (masia), and a soldier of the Popular Army bearing a rifle. The denomination and mandatory local currency status are stated in Catalan across the face of the note. |
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Montagut de Fluvià is a small municipality in the Garrotxa comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency after the collapse of metallic coin circulation in 1936–37. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coinage supply forced local councils — ajuntaments — to print their own paper at whatever press was available. Imprenta Bonet in Olot served several Garrotxa-area municipalities in exactly this capacity.
Turró documents over 1,500 such local emissions; this falls late in the sequence, suggesting relatively late authorization within the wartime municipal issue program.