Catalog
0.50 Pesetas Olèstria
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Olèstria (Municipality of Olèstria) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Light blue note printed in black letterpress, with an ornate rectangular border composed of interlocking floral and leaf motifs at the corners and stylised elongated oval elements along the sides. The issuing authority and bearer clause are set in bold block lettering across the upper and central fields, with the denomination '0'50 Pessetes' rendered in large display type. Below the denomination appears a signature line captioned 'El Conseller d'Economia' with a manuscript serial number and a partially legible circular official stamp in violet ink. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on light blue paper stock, devoid of any text, vignette, or ornamental design. |
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Olèstria — the Catalan name for the municipality of Olius, in the comarca of Solsonès — issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain a supply of small coins created a vacuum filled by thousands of local ayuntamientos across Catalonia. The Generalitat authorized this practice in 1936, and by 1937 even villages of a few hundred inhabitants were producing their own paper fractions.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipals, and a listing at #1684 places this squarely in the documented — if thinly circulated — provincial issues.