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0.25 Pesetas La Pobla de Montornès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Pobla de Montornès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain card stock note authenticated by a dry embossed oval seal bearing the name of the issuing municipality and the face value hand-inscribed in red ink. The denomination and issuer name are the sole design elements, reflecting the improvised nature of Civil War-era emergency currency. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse displays a large dry embossed oval seal repeating the municipal authority legend, with a handwritten serial number in red ink at the centre. The issue date is applied at the lower portion by means of a violet rubber stamp ink pad. |
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La Pobla de Montornès is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its ajuntament issued fractional emergency currency in 1937 to address the acute shortage of small-denomination coin. The Republic had effectively lost control of the coinage supply, and local councils stepped in — producing notes that in some cases were printed in quantities of a few hundred, intended for purely local exchange.
The near-square format is characteristic of many Catalan municipal emissions at this denomination, where card stock substituted for proper banknote paper. Turró catalogues this as a single type with no known varieties.