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25 Céntimos Pozoblanco
| Issuer | Pozoblanco, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer header reads '- Frente Popular -' in bold serif type, with 'POZOBLANCO' in larger capitals below, underlined by a solid rule. The denomination legend 'VALE POR' appears in the centre, with '25 CTS.' in large bold type at the foot; a circular violet control stamp and a manuscript signature are applied to the right-hand side. |
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| Obverse lettering | - Frente Popular - POZOBLANCO VALE POR 25 CTS. (Translation: Popular Front Pozoblanco Voucher for 25 Centimos) |
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Pozoblanco is a market town in northern Córdoba province, and like hundreds of Spanish municipalities, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republic's small-change shortage became acute in 1936–37. Local governments, trade unions, and cooperatives across Republican-held territory all scrambled to fill the gap, producing an enormous variety of these billetes locales with wildly uneven quality.
Imprenta Bassa i Pagès in Barcelona handled printing work for numerous municipal issues during this period, which kept production quality reasonably consistent even when the issuing authority was a small inland town. The thick card stock was a deliberate choice — thinner paper wore through too quickly in everyday market use.