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1 Peseta Olvan
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Olvan (Municipality of Olvan) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'OLVAN 1 pta. La Caixa Municipal reintegrará al portador una pesseta. (Translation: City Council of Olvan 1 Peseta. The Municipal Savings Fund will reimburse the bearer one peseta.) |
| Reverse description | Intricate scrolling floral vignette occupies the left portion of the note, printed in red on a light ground. To the right, a large circular guilloche cartouche bears the face value in Catalan in bold letterpress text. The numeral "1" appears in the upper right and lower left corners, with a serial number at the bottom centre. |
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Olvan is a small municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly sized towns it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorized local authorities to fill the coin shortage themselves. The Ajuntament contracted Imprenta Avant in Barcelona, one of the more active small commercial printers supplying these wartime municipal notes across the region.
Turró catalogs this as #1704, placing it within the dense mass of Catalan municipal emissions — a series where condition varies wildly, since many notes survived only in the issuing town's own records rather than through actual hand-to-hand use.