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1 Peseta Oliana
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oliana (Municipality of Oliana) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1688 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red ink, the note is framed by an ornamental typographic border enclosing a background of geometric guilloche-style figures. The coat of arms of Catalonia is positioned at the left, while the central legend states the denomination and issuing authority entirely in Catalan. The overall composition is characteristic of Civil War-era Catalan emergency currency, with no pictorial vignette. |
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| Reverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Oliana 1 pesseta (Translation: City Council of Oliana 1 Peseta) |
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Oliana is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and this note is a product of the extraordinary proliferation of local emergency currency — *moneda de necessitat* — that swept Catalonia between 1936 and 1939 as the Republican zone fractured into hyperlocal economic units. The Generalitat had authorized municipalities to issue their own fractional currency to address a chronic shortage of small change, itself caused by hoarding and the disruption of normal banking following the July 1936 coup.
Turró catalogues well over a thousand such issuers. El Secretariat Català in Barcelona printed for dozens of these small municipalities, which is why production quality on Oliana's notes is competent despite the issuer's size.