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2 Pesetas La Pobla de Montornès
| Issuer | Ajuntament de la Pobla de Montornès |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light blue card stock impressed with a circular dry seal bearing the name of the issuing municipality. The face value of 2 pesetas is handwritten in red ink at centre, with the issuer's name inscribed within the embossed seal surround. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT · POBLA DE MONTORNES 2`00 pts (Translation: City Council · Pobla de Montornés 2 Pesetas) |
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La Pobla de Montornès is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper money after the collapse of small-change supply in 1936. The Republican government's inability to maintain a functioning coin circulation drove municipal councils — ajuntaments — to fill the gap themselves, producing locally authorised notes that were valid only within their own territory.
Turró catalogues this as a scarce emission. Very few Pobla de Montornès pieces survive in any grade, which is typical of the smallest issuing councils whose print runs rarely exceeded a few hundred notes.