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1 Peseta Oluges
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oluges (Municipality of Les Oluges) |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| In circulation to | 1939 |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Oluges Val per 1 pta. (Translation: City Council of Oluges / Voucher for 1 Peseta) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted cream card stock bearing a single black rubber-stamped serial number at centre, the remainder of the surface left entirely blank, consistent with the rudimentary production methods characteristic of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency issues. |
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Les Oluges is a tiny municipality in the comarca of La Segarra, Catalonia — population measured in the hundreds even then. This note belongs to the vast emergency paper money phenomenon of the Spanish Civil War, during which hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own fractional currency between 1936 and 1939 to address the acute shortage of metallic coins that followed the Republican monetary disruption of July 1936. Municipal issues of this kind were technically authorized under a Generalitat de Catalunya framework but were entirely local in production, often printed on whatever card stock or heavy paper the town council could source.
Turró catalogued over two thousand such issues; at #1702, Oluges sits deep in a long sequence of obscure rural emitters whose notes rarely survived in quantity.