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1 Peseta Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Pobla de Segur |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 103 × 64 mm |
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| Obverse description | The face is set against a brown leaf-pattern underprint with the coat of arms of Catalonia positioned to the left. The central text block carries the full municipal authorization legend in Catalan, recording the council resolution of 6 July 1937. The numeral '1' appears at the upper left, with the issuing authority's name running across the upper portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 L`AJUNTAMENT DE POBLA DE SEGUR RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE UNA PESSETA EN VIRTUT D`ACORD MUNICIPAL DEL 6 DE JULIOL DEL 1937 POBLA DE SEGUR, JULIOL 1937 (Translation: The City Council of Pobla de Segur Recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta According to municipal agreement of July 6, 1937 Pobla de Segur, July 1937) |
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Pobla de Segur is a small municipality in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and its decision to issue local currency in 1937 was entirely practical: the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage almost from the start of the Civil War, and hundreds of Catalan towns responded by printing their own notes under authority granted by the Generalitat de Catalunya. This note is one of that wave.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these municipal emissions, which accounts for the relatively clean production quality typical of their output — uncommon among wartime local issues printed under worse conditions elsewhere in the zone.
The Turró catalogue remains the definitive reference for Civil War Catalan paper money, and 1921 places this note well into the mid-range of that enormous corpus.