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25 Céntimos Pozoblanco

Issuer Pozoblanco, Municipality of
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Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse lettering - Frente Popular - POZOBLANCO VALE POR 25 CTS.
(Translation: Popular Front Pozoblanco Voucher for 25 Centimos)
Reverse description Entirely unprinted, the reverse consists of plain cream card stock with no text, vignette, or ornament of any kind; collector catalogue notations are visible in pencil at the upper right corner.
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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.

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