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1 Peseta Ollería

Issuer Consejo Municipal de Ollería
Year 1937
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Currency Peseta (1936-1939)
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Obverse lettering El Consejo Municipal de Ollería PAGARA AL PORTADOR 1 Pta.
(Translation: The Municipal Council of Ollería Will pay the bearer 1 Peseta)
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Reverse lettering CONSEJO MUNICIPAL
Nº - DE -
OLLERIA
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Ollería is a small municipality in Valencia, and this note is one of hundreds of hyper-local emergency emissions produced across the Republican zone during the Civil War after the withdrawal of coinage from circulation in 1936–37 stripped communities of any means of making change. Municipal councils, cooperatives, and even individual businesses issued their own scrip, with no central authority controlling design, denomination, or material. The result was a chaotic but historically vivid record of how localised the economic breakdown actually was.

At under five centimetres across, this is card rather than banknote in any conventional sense — closer to a tram token than a monetary instrument.

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