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1 Peseta Ogassa

Issuer Consell Municipal d'Ogassa
Year 1937
Type Emergency banknote
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Obverse lettering CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'OGASSA El Consell Municipal d'Ogassa reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de UNA PESSETA 1
(Translation: Municipal Council of Ogassa The Municipal Council of Ogassa recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of One Peseta)
Reverse description Printed in dark green on a light green geometric underprint, the centre carries a circular emblem with two clasped hands encircled by foliate branches, with the denomination numeral '1' flanking the design. The field is enclosed within a quadruple rule border consistent with the obverse.
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Ogassa is a small coal-mining municipality in the comarca of Ripollès, Girona, and this 1 Peseta note is one of the hundreds of emergency paper emissions — known collectively as moneda de paper — issued by Catalan town councils during the early months of the Civil War, when metallic coin essentially vanished from circulation. The Republican government tolerated these local issues out of necessity, not policy.

Printing by the Cooperativa d'Arts Gràfiques in nearby Ripoll was a practical choice; several surrounding municipalities used the same press, which accounts for the family resemblance across a number of Ripollès-area wartime notes catalogued by Turró.

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