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50 Céntimos Olot
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'Olot |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1699 |
| Obverse description | Plain gray ground enclosed within a triple-line rectangular border, with the municipal coat of arms of Olot positioned at left. The central and right fields carry black letterpress text setting out the issuing authority, denomination, place, and date of issue, together with a declaration of mandatory local circulation. The layout is austere and typographic in character, with no ornamental underprint or guilloche. |
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| Obverse lettering | 0`50 CONSELL MUNICIPAL D`OLOT EL Consell Municipal d`Olot reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINQUANTA Cts. OLOT, 23 de JUNY 1937 Bitllet de curs local obligatori (Translation: Municipal Council of Olot / The Municipal Council of Olot recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Fifty Centimos / Olot, June 23, 1937 / Mandatory local course banknote) |
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Olot's wartime municipal scrip was one of hundreds of locally issued emergency notes produced across Republican Catalonia after the July 1936 uprising effectively severed normal banking functions. The Consell Municipal filled the vacuum left by the disappearance of small-denomination coinage — silver and copper were being hoarded or melted — by issuing fractional paper in their own name. Seix i Barral, better known as a Barcelona literary publisher with a serious printing operation, took on considerable volume of this municipal work throughout 1936–37.
Olot itself, a Garrotxa market town, remained behind Republican lines until early 1939.