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1 Peseta Osor
| Issuer | Osor, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black and pink on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative guilloche border of small rosette and scroll motifs. The issuing authority is given in script as "consell municipal" at upper left, with "OSOR" in spaced red capitals below; the central denomination legend "VAL PER UNA PESSETA" is set in bold black capitals. A red serial number appears at upper right, and three manuscript signatures of municipal officials are arranged across the lower portion above the printer's imprint. |
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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) |
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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.