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0.50 Pesetas Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Junta Gestora Municipal de Pobla de Segur |
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| Year | 1938 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a simple rectangular letterpress border framing all text. The upper portion carries the issuing authority legends in two lines divided by a horizontal rule, while the central field states the face value in large type followed by the conditions of exchange in smaller body text. A circular official stamp of the Junta Gestora Municipal de Pobla de Segur appears at the lower right, partially overlapping the text, and a handwritten serial number is inscribed at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ejército Nacional - ARRIBA ESPAÑA JUNTA GESTORA MUNICIPAL Vale por 0`50 ptas. para adquisición de artículos de primera necesidad, canjeables obligatoriamente al poseer los interesados la Moneda Nacional. Pobla de Segur 7 Abril 1938 II Año Triunfal (Translation: National Army - 'Arriba España' Municipal Management Board It is valid for 0.50 Pesetas for the purchase of basic necessities, which can be exchanged compulsorily when those interested have the National Currency. Pobla de Segur, April 7, 1938 II Triumphal Year) |
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Pobla de Segur is a small town in the Pallars Jussà comarca of inland Catalonia, and this note is a product of the extraordinary proliferation of local emergency currency that swept Republican-held territory during the Spanish Civil War. With the banking system disrupted and small coinage effectively vanished from circulation, hundreds of Catalan municipalities — including tiny ones like this — issued their own paper fractional currency under emergency authority. The Generalitat eventually tried to rein in the practice, but local juntes continued well into 1938.
Turró catalogues over two thousand such emissions, which gives some sense of how saturated the field is — yet individual issues from small highland towns remain genuinely difficult to source.