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2 Pesetas Pozoblanco
| Issuer | Pozoblanco, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE POZOBLANCO BONO DE CURSO LOCAL POR VALOR DE DOS PESETAS Pozoblanco 1 de Julio 1937 (Translation: Municipal Council of Pozoblanco Local course bond of value of Two Pesetas Pozoblanco, July 1, 1937) |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSEJO MUNICIPAL POZOBLANCO 2 PTAS. (Translation: Municipal Council Pozoblanco 2 Pesetas) |
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Pozoblanco is a small town in the northern Sierra Morena of Córdoba province, and its wartime municipal currency was a direct consequence of the Republican government's inability to maintain coin supply across loyalist territory during 1936–37. The silver and copper coinage had effectively vanished — hoarded, melted, or simply absent from rural circulation — forcing hundreds of Spanish municipalities to print their own emergency fractional notes. This Pozoblanco emission is one of that wave.
Printing at Imprenta Bassa i Pagès in Barcelona, a real commercial press rather than a local hand-press operation, gives this note a degree of production consistency not always found in provincial wartime issues. Pozoblanco itself would later give its name to the Republican defensive line that held through much of 1937.