Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Céntimos Oliana
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oliana (Municipality of Oliana) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Printed in blue on white paper, the note is framed by an ornamental guilloche border with geometric underprint throughout the field. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears at the left, flanked by the issuing authority's text in Catalan. The legend details the issuing municipality, the nominal value, the date of the agreement, the issue date, and the expiration date of 31 July 1938. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | L`Ajuntament d`OLIANA pagarà al portador la quantitat de 25 cèntims segons acord del 10 d`agost del 1937 Oliana, el 20 d`agost del 1937. Venciment el 31 de Juliol del 1938. (Translation: The City Council of Oliana will pay the bearer the amount of 25 Centimos according to agreement of August 10, 1937 Oliana, August 20, 1937. Expiration on July 31, 1938.) |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Oliana is a small town in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of other Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized these local emissions under a decree that year, giving otherwise obscure town councils the legal cover to print their own money — a bureaucratic solution to a very practical crisis.
Imprenta El Secretariat Català in Barcelona handled a significant volume of these municipal notes, which gives this piece better production quality than some rural equivalents printed on whatever stock was locally available.