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1 Peseta Pobla de Mafumet
| Issuer | La Pobla de Mafumet, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Tip. A. Ventura, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL La caixa municipal pagarà al portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA Pobla de Mafumet 22 de Febrer del 1937. El President, P. A. del C. M., El Secretari, Pagarè de curs obligatori en tot el terme municipal TIP. DE A. VENTURA (Translation: Municipal Council The municipal treasury will pay the bearer the amount of One Peseta Pobla de Mafumet February 22, 1937. The President, P. A. of the M. C., The Secretary, Compulsory legal tender promissory note throughout the municipality TIP. DE A. VENTURA) |
| Reverse description | Reverse entirely plain, printed on unadorned salmon-toned paper with no text, vignette, or ornamental elements. |
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La Pobla de Mafumet is a small municipality just outside Tarragona, and like dozens of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 when Republican Spain faced a chronic shortage of small change — coins had been hoarded, melted, or simply vanished from circulation. These local emergency notes, collectively known as moneda de necessitat, were authorized under the Generalitat de Catalunya and printed by whatever local press was available. Here, Tipografia A. Ventura in Tarragona handled the job.
Turró catalogues over two thousand such issues, which gives some sense of how atomized the system became. A village of a few hundred souls issuing its own peseta was not unusual — it was policy by improvisation.