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50 Céntimos Olesa de Montserrat
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Olesa de Montserrat |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 109 × 70 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress impression on cream paper, framed by an ornate geometric and floral perimeter border. The municipal coat of arms of Olesa de Montserrat is positioned to the left, with the denomination and name of the issuing authority inscribed across the body of the note, accompanied by the legal tender clause and issuance date. |
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| Obverse lettering | EL CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'OLESA DE MONTSERRAT 50 CÈNTIMS Reintegrable a la Caixa Municipal en virtut d'acord del 14 de maig del 1937. Olesa de Montserrat 18 de maig del 1937 DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT AQUEST TERME MUNICIPAL (Translation: The Municipal Council of Olesa de Montserrat 50 Centimos Refundable to the Municipal Fund under an agreement dated May 14, 1937. Olesa de Montserrat May 18, 1937 Of mandatory currency for all this Municipal term) |
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Olesa de Montserrat is a small industrial town on the Llobregat river, and like dozens of Catalan municipalities in 1937, its local council issued emergency fractional currency because the Republic's coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent. The printer here is the tell: the Centro Administrativo Municipal operated under CNT collective management at Casanova 55 in Barcelona, meaning this note was produced by an anarcho-syndicalist workers' collective running what had been a commercial print shop seized during the July 1936 revolutionary upheaval.
Turró catalogues well over 1,500 such local issues from the Civil War period. This one is unremarkable in that company — which is precisely what makes the whole series historically dense.