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25 Céntimos Olvan
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Olvan (Municipality of Olvan) |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of ears of wheat set against a background of a large industrial factory with smoking chimneys, enclosed within an ornamental floral frame. The face value and municipal authority inscription are arranged around the central design in Catalan. The overall composition is printed in a single color in a simple letterpress style typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT D'OLVAN 25 CTS. La Caixa Municipal reintegrará al portador vint-i-cinc cèntims. (Translation: City Council of Olvan 25 Centimos. The Municipal Treasury will reimburse the bearer twenty-five centimos.) |
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Olvan is a tiny municipality in the Berguedà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar villages during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional emergency currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively disappeared from circulation. The central Republican government had lost practical control over the monetary supply at the local level, forcing ajuntaments down to the village scale to paper over the gap themselves.
Imprenta Avant in Barcelona handled production for numerous municipal issues of this type, which is why notes from otherwise unrelated Catalan towns sometimes share typographic conventions.