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20 Céntimos Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Pobla de Segur, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 cts. L'AJUNTAMENT DE POBLA DE SEGUR RECONEIX A FAVOR DEL PORTADOR LA QUANTITAT DE VINT CENTIMS EN VIRTUT D'ACORD MUNICIPAL DEL 6 DE JULIOL DEL 1937 POBLA DE SEGUR, JULIOL 1937 (Translation: 20 Centimos. The City Council of Pobla de Segur recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Twenty Centimos by virtue of the municipal agreement of 6 July 1937. Pobla de Segur, July 1937) |
| Reverse description | A pastoral-industrial vignette occupies the central field, with a farmer ploughing with two horses to the left and a factory with overhead electric lines to the right, together symbolising the agricultural and industrial foundations of the local economy. The denomination appears at upper left, with the mandatory circulation legend across the lower register. The composition is rendered in a simple letterpress style typical of Catalan Civil War emergency issues. |
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Pobla de Segur is a small town in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when Republican Spain's small-change supply collapsed after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya authorized local bodies to print their own notes to keep commerce moving — which is why notes like this one exist at all.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these municipal emissions, producing notes for dozens of towns across the region.