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25 Céntimos Pobla de Masaluca
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Pobla de Masaluca |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Yellow-toned note printed in dark blue letterpress throughout, with a decorative border of small dots and squares forming a double-rule perimeter frame with corner ornaments. The numeral '25' and 'Cèntims' appear in the left panel alongside the serial number and date 'MARÇ 1937', while the right panel carries the full text of the municipal promise-to-pay in Catalan, culminating in the denomination spelled out in large display type. A circular red official stamp of the Consell Municipal is applied over the centre, and a handwritten red ink signature of the Cap del Consell Municipal runs across the lower portion. The printer's imprint 'Imp. BASSA.-Mora d'Ebre-Teléf. 36' is typeset at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing the plain yellow paper stock; the obverse letterpress impression is faintly visible as a show-through of the full text and border design, with traces of the red stamp also bleeding through. |
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La Pobla de Masaluca is a small village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of other Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during 1936–37, its council issued emergency fractional currency after the Republic's small-change crisis made coins virtually impossible to obtain. The Republican government had effectively lost control of coinage circulation, and local bodies filled the gap themselves — legally dubious, practically necessary.
Josep Bassa's print shop in Mora d'Ebre served several Terra Alta municipalities during this period, which accounts for the family resemblance between notes from neighboring villages. The official stamp was the primary — and often only — security measure these councils could realistically apply.