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50 Céntimos Ogassa
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Ogassa |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark green on a yellow geometric underprint, the reverse is enclosed by a quadruple line border. A central circular vignette displays two clasped hands flanked by leafy branches, with the mandatory local currency inscriptions and date arranged around it in letterpress. |
| Reverse lettering | MONEDA PAPER DE CURS LOCAL OBLIGATORI Ogassa, juny 1937 50 (Translation: Mandatory local course paper-money Ogassa, June 1937) |
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Ogassa is a tiny mining village in the Catalan Pyrenees — in 1937 its population barely exceeded a few hundred — yet like hundreds of other Republican-zone municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional paper currency when metallic coin effectively vanished from circulation. The Republican government had authorized local councils to fill the gap, producing a chaotic proliferation of small-denomination notes that economists at the time called "moneda de necessitat."
Printed by the Cooperativa d'Arts Gràfiques in nearby Ripoll, the production quality is modest but competent. Survival rates for hyper-local Catalan wartime issues tend to be low — small print runs, rough handling, and the disruptions of 1938–39 saw most destroyed or lost.