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5 Pesetas Pobla de Segur
| Issuer | Junta Gestora Municipal de Pobla de Segur |
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| Year | 1938 |
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| Value | 5 Pesetas (5 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in blue-green ink on white paper within a double-rule rectangular border, the note carries two bold heading lines — "Ejército Nacional - Arriba España" and "Junta Gestora Municipal" — separated by a horizontal rule, beneath which the body text sets out the note's face value of five pesetas and its conditions of redemption, dated Pobla de Segur, 7 April 1938, II Año Triunfal. A circular violet official municipal stamp is applied at centre-right, and a hand-stamped serial number is placed at lower left. The overall design is entirely typographic, with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ejército Nacional - ARRIBA ESPAÑA JUNTA GESTORA MUNICIPAL Vale por cinco pesetas para adquisición de artículos de primera necesidad, canjeables obligatoriamente al poseer los interesados la Moneda Nacional. Pobla de Segur 7 Abril 1938 II Año Triunfal (Translation: National Army - Arriba España Municipal Management Board Valid for five pesetas for the purchase of basic necessities, exchangeable compulsorily when those interested hold the National Currency. Pobla de Segur, 7 April 1938, II Triumphal Year) |
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Pobla de Segur is a small town in the Pallars Jussà comarca of Lleida, and this note is one of hundreds of hyperlocal emergency issues produced by Catalan municipal authorities during the Spanish Civil War. When the Republic's central banking system collapsed under wartime pressure and small-denomination coinage vanished from circulation, municipal juntas across Catalonia were granted authority to issue their own paper scrip — the so-called "moneda local" of 1936–1938. Turró's catalog alone documents over two thousand distinct local issues.
The 1938 date places this at the very end of viable Republican control in the region. Franco's forces crossed the Segre and Noguera Pallaresa valleys in early 1939, and most surviving municipal scrip was rendered worthless within weeks of issue.