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1 Peseta Oliana
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oliana (Municipality of Oliana) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Ajuntament d`OLIANA Val d`UNA pesseta circulació obligatòria dintre de la població, garantit per l`Ajuntament. Oliana, març del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Oliana Voucher of One Peseta mandatory circulation within the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Oliana, March 1937.) |
| Reverse description | Reverse is entirely plain, printed on unadorned paper stock with no text, vignette, or decorative elements, consistent with the austere production standards of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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Oliana is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and this note belongs to the enormous wave of locally issued emergency fractional currency that flooded the Republican zone from 1936 onward. The collapse of small coin circulation — driven by hoarding and the disruption of normal minting — forced hundreds of Catalan and other Republican municipalities to print their own paper to cover daily transactions. The Generalitat eventually tried to regulate and suppress these emissions, but enforcement was uneven and many localities continued issuing well into 1937.
Turró catalogues over two thousand distinct municipal issues from this period. That Oliana appears at all reflects necessity rather than any municipal banking ambition.