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2 Pesetas Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Pobla de Segur, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground with a thin rectangular border frame enclosing all text. The heading reads 'Ejército Nacional - Arriba España' followed by 'Junta Gestora Municipal' in bold letterpress, separated by a horizontal rule. Below, the denomination 'dos pesetas' appears in enlarged type within the body text authorising its use for the purchase of basic necessities, with the place and date 'Pobla de Segur, 7 Abril 1938, II Año Triunfal' centred in the lower portion. A circular municipal validation stamp in violet ink is applied to the left margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ejército Nacional - ARRIBA ESPAÑA JUNTA GESTORA MUNICIPAL Vale por dos 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 Two 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 Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency issues produced by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War. After the Republic's central coin supply collapsed in 1936–37, towns effectively printed their own money to keep local commerce moving — a phenomenon so widespread in Catalonia that the Generalitat eventually attempted, with limited success, to impose some order on it. Turró's catalog documents the chaos systematically.
Being a 1938 issue, this note appeared late in the Republican zone's functional existence. Lleida province fell to Nationalist forces in April 1938, meaning circulation of this particular emission may have been extremely brief.