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1 Peseta Olèstria
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Olèstria (Municipality of Olèstria) |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Pink paper note printed in black letterpress throughout. A rectangular geometric border of repeating foliate and oval ornamental units frames the entire face, with small rosette cornerpieces. The issuer's name and bearer clause are set in a hierarchy of type sizes, with the denomination UNA Pesseta in large bold capitals at centre. Below a thin rule, the title El Conseller d'Economia appears, followed by a handwritten serial number at lower left and an official circular ink stamp at centre right. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Olèstria reconeix al portador la quantitat de UNA Pesseta El Conseller d'Economia, N.º (Translation: City Council of Olèstria recognizes to the bearer the amount of One Peseta / The Councillor of Economy) |
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Olèstria is the Catalan name for Olérdola — a small municipality in the Alt Penedès comarca — and this note is one of thousands of emergency fractional issues produced by Catalan and Spanish municipalities during the Civil War years of 1936–1939, when Republican-zone coin shortages made small-denomination paper a practical necessity. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized local bodies to print their own currency, which is why even villages of a few hundred inhabitants appear in the Turró catalogue with their own emissions.
Turró 1683 places this squarely within that wartime municipal series. No printing details are reliably established for Olèstria's issue.