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1 Real '25 Céntimos' Poliñá
| Issuer | Poliñá, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | U. G. T. ⬩ Poliñá VALE por 1 REAL (Translation: U. G. T. ⬩ Poliñá Voucher for 1 Real) |
| Reverse description | Otherwise blank white card stock bearing a single large oval rubber stamp applied in red ink, with a serrated outer border. The stamp reads 'Sociedad de Trabajadores de la Tierra y Oficios Varios / U.G.T. / POLIÑÁ DE JÚCAR', with two small star ornaments flanking the 'U.G.T.' text. A handwritten signature in pencil crosses the centre of the oval stamp. |
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Poliñá is a small municipality in the Vallès Occidental comarca north of Barcelona, and this note belongs to the enormous category of Spanish Civil War emergency paper issued by local councils when coinage — copper and silver alike — vanished from circulation almost entirely in 1936–37. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized municipalities to issue their own small-denomination fractional currency, and hundreds did, producing what collectors now call *moneda de necessitat* or *guerra civil local*.
The 25 céntimos face value denominated in reales is a quirk worth noting: the real had not been legal tender in Spain for decades by 1937, yet some Catalan municipalities reverted to it informally on their emergency issues.