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1 Peseta Oix
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oix (Municipality of Oix) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 97 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | A row of several wheat sheaves arranged across the centre of the note serves as the principal vignette, above which appears a profile portrait of a woman wearing a Phrygian cap, a traditional symbol of the Spanish Republic. The denomination is printed in dark lettering against a plain background. |
| Reverse lettering | 1 Pta. (Translation: 1 Peseta) |
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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republic's central government was unable to maintain adequate small coin circulation in many Catalan municipalities. Oix — a tiny village in the Garrotxa comarca with a population that barely reached a few hundred — was among dozens of local councils that issued their own emergency paper fractional currency in 1937 under a framework the Generalitat of Catalonia loosely sanctioned. These municipal issues are collectively known as "moneda local" or "paper moneda."
Gràfiques Minerva in Olot printed for several surrounding municipalities during this period, which is why notes from the Garrotxa region share recognizable typographic characteristics. Oix's issue is among the rarer village-level emissions simply because fewer were printed to begin with — demand in a settlement that small was inherently limited. Turró catalogues it as #1675.