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50 Céntimos Pozoblanco
| Issuer | Frente Popular de Pozoblanco (Province of Córdoba) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Bassa i Pagès, Barcelona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer legend '- Frente Popular -' appears at the top in bold italic type, followed by 'POZOBLANCO' in large spaced capitals; a fine dotted rule separates these from the value statement 'VALE POR' and the large denomination numeral '50 CTS.' at the foot. A faint violet oval control stamp is visible at centre, and a handwritten authorization signature appears in an oval cartouche at the right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain cream card stock, showing age-toning and staining consistent with circulation wear. |
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Pozoblanco was a small agricultural town in the Sierra Morena foothills that found itself well behind Republican lines after the July 1936 uprising. Like dozens of Andalusian municipalities that summer, the local Frente Popular committee faced an immediate coin shortage — silver and copper had vanished from circulation almost overnight as hoarding took hold across the zone. These fractional emergency issues were the practical response: locally authorized, printed elsewhere, and put into use fast.
The Barcelona imprint is telling. Bassa i Pagès was handling emergency paper for committees across Republican Spain that autumn, which means this note was ordered, shipped south, and authenticated locally — the handstamp and manuscript signature applied in Pozoblanco itself before release.