Catalog
1 Peseta Osor
| Issuer | Osor, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | consell municipal - OSOR - VAL PER UNA PESSETA - primer conseller, - dipositari, - conseller finances, (Translation: Municipal Council - Osor - Valid for One Peseta - First Councillor, - Treasurer, - Finance Councillor) |
| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black and pink on plain paper within a double-ruled rectangular frame, with a continuous border of small pink rosette ornaments. A pink foliate underprint fills the central field, over which the bold numeral "1" and the word "Pesseta" are printed in black type at centre. The serial number appears in red at top, the month "MAIG" is set vertically along the left margin, the year "1937" vertically along the right margin, and a mandatory currency declaration occupies the lower portion. |
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Osor is a small municipality in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like dozens of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local issues, but quality and execution varied wildly — Imprenta Cabruja in Girona handled a number of these small-town commissions, which accounts for the relatively competent typography compared to notes produced on hand-presses in village back rooms.
Turró catalogs this as #1730. Osor's total population at the time was under five hundred, making the actual print run almost certainly very small.