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1 Peseta Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Pobla de Segur, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Josep Güell, La Pobla de Segur, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note with red text and a green ruled border forming the perimeter frame. To the left, an allegorical vignette shows a balance scale symbolizing equality and a Phrygian cap representing the Republic. Issuing authority legend and denomination are set in red lettering across the face. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green throughout, the reverse carries a dense geometric guilloche underprint of interlocking diamond and cross patterns filling the entire field. The large numeral '1' is centered within the underprint, with the denomination 'PESSETA' set below. The issuer's name appears in a single line at the top, and a circular municipal stamp impression is visible at the right. |
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Pobla de Segur is a small Pyrenean town in the Pallars Jussà comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency after the Republican government's decree authorizing local emergency emissions in 1936. The national coin shortage — driven by silver hoarding and the wartime collapse of normal supply chains — forced even minor rural councils into the printing business. Josep Güell's local press was a logical choice; transporting notes from Barcelona would have been neither practical nor fast in a region already cut off by the front.
Turró catalogs over two thousand of these municipal issues, and Pobla de Segur's contribution is among the more geographically isolated, which tends to keep surviving quantities low.