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10 Pesetas Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Junta Gestora Municipal de Pobla de Segur |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1924 |
| Obverse description | Plain white note with a fine guilloche-patterned border framing the entire perimeter. A horizontal rule divides the upper inscription area from the body text below, with all legends printed in letterpress. A circular official municipality stamp in blue-violet ink is applied to the right side, partially overlapping the printed text. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ejército Nacional - ARRIBA ESPAÑA JUNTA GESTORA MUNICIPAL Vale por diez pesetas para adquisición de artículos de primera necesidad, canjeables obligatoriamente al poseer los interesados la Moneda Nacional. Pobla de Segur 7 Abril 1938 II Año Triunfal (Translation: National Army - Arriba España Municipal Management Board It is valid for Ten Pesetas for the purchase of basic necessities, which can be exchanged compulsorily when those interested have the National Currency. Pobla de Segur, April 7, 1938 II Triumphal Year) |
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Pobla de Segur is a small town in the Catalan Pyrenees, and its wartime municipal scrip belongs to the sprawling ecosystem of emergency local currency that proliferated across Republican-controlled Catalonia during the Civil War. By 1938, the collapse of confidence in official Republican currency and severe coin shortages had pushed hundreds of municipalities — including ones far smaller than Pobla de Segur — into printing their own paper. The Generalitat officially sanctioned local issues from 1936, but oversight was loose and designs were produced under genuinely difficult wartime conditions.
Turró catalogs well over two thousand such emissions. That this one rates a dedicated entry at #1924 speaks to how thoroughly documented the series has become, largely through the work of Catalan collectors who rescued examples before they were discarded after the Nationalist victory made them worthless.