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1 Peseta Òdena
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Odena (Municipality of Òdena) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text printed in black letterpress. The issuer name AJUNTAMENT D'ODENA appears in the upper portion within a framed panel, flanked above and below by double ruled lines. Below, in a larger typeface, the value statement Val per 1 pta. is set across the lower field. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream card stock bearing a blue letterpress serial number preceded by the abbreviation No, followed by an asterisk control mark positioned to the right, printed horizontally across the centre of the note. |
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Òdena is a small municipality in the comarca of Anoia, inland Catalonia. Like hundreds of other Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency fractional paper currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of late 1936 effectively sanctioned local authorities to print substitutes for the hoarded metallic coinage that had vanished from circulation almost overnight.
Turró catalogs this as #1669 — a high number reflecting just how many municipalities did exactly the same thing. The thick card stock was a practical response to the note's tiny dimensions; thinner paper at that size would have disintegrated rapidly in pocket use.