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25 Céntimos Olesa de Montserrat
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Olesa de Montserrat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper with a geometric and floral perimeter frame enclosing the full text field; the municipal coat of arms of Olesa de Montserrat is positioned to the left, serving as the principal vignette. The denomination and issuing authority are set in bold typeface, with the mandatory circulation and redemption clauses arranged in smaller text below. Facsimile signatures of municipal officials appear at the foot of the note. |
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| Reverse description | Blue letterpress on cream paper. A central oval cartouche, surrounded by fine guilloche lathe-work, carries the large numeral '25' above the denomination 'CÉNTIMS' in bold lettering. The issuing authority 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'OLESA DE MONTSERRAT' is inscribed in a curved banner across the top, with the denomination numeral repeated in shield-shaped corner panels at upper left and lower right. The printer's imprint appears along the lower margin. |
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One of hundreds of emergency fractional notes issued by Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, when the Republic's small-change shortage became acute enough that town councils took printing into their own hands. The Consell Municipal of this small industrial town near the Llobregat river authorized its own circulating paper, redeemable only locally — which made the notes effectively worthless to anyone outside the village.
The Centre d'Administració Municipal on Carrer Casanova in Barcelona acted as a commercial printer to dozens of these municipal issues, not a government press. Turró's cataloguing of such notes remains the essential reference for the series.