10 Pesetas Plou

Plou is a village in the province of Teruel, Aragon — population measured in the hundreds even before the civil war thinned it further. During 1936–37, the Republican zone's chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage forced thousands of Spanish municipalities, no matter how small, to print their own emergency paper. These local emission certificates, the so-called "billetes de necesidad," were typically authorized by the municipal council and validated with an official stamp in lieu of any serious security apparatus. Gari Mon catalogues this specific Plou emission under #1135-C, suggesting at least minor variant distinctions within the series.

Survival rates for village-level Aragonese issues are unpredictable — some tiny municipalities produced so few notes that almost nothing reached collectors; others flooded a small local economy and turned up in quantity decades later.