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50 Céntimos Oliana
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oliana (Municipality of Oliana) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1687 |
| Obverse description | Plain light pink underprint with a simple rectilinear border in brown, the face value "50" appearing in lateral squares at left and right. The central text field carries the issuing authority and redemption conditions in Catalan, printed by letterpress in brown ink. The overall design is of austere, utilitarian character, typical of wartime municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 Ajuntament d'OLIANA Val de CINQUANTA cèntims circulació obligatòria dintre de la població, garantit per l'Ajuntament. Oliana, març del 1937. (Translation: City Council of Oliana Voucher of Fifty Centimos mandatory circulation within the town, guaranteed by the City Council. Oliana, March 1937.) |
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Oliana is a small municipality in the Alt Urgell comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own paper fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never minted in sufficient quantity. These municipal notes, collectively known as "moneda local" or "paper moneda," were a grassroots monetary response to a genuine transactional crisis, not a political statement in isolation.
Turró's catalog remains the primary reference for this sprawling category. Oliana's issues are among the less frequently encountered Alt Urgell municipals in the collector market.