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50 Céntimos Oluges
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Oluges (Municipality of Les Oluges) |
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| Size | 74 × 46 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in black letterpress throughout. The issuer's name appears within a simple double-rule rectangular frame at the top of the note. Below, a handwritten signature in ink crosses the centre field, accompanied by a partially legible violet official stamp to the right. The denomination legend is set in bold letterpress type across the lower portion of the note. |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Oluges Val per 50 cts. (Translation: City Council of Oluges / Voucher for 50 Centimos) |
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Les Oluges is a small municipality in the Segarra comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly minor Catalan towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's decree of May 1937 authorized local authorities to print small-denomination fractional currency to address the near-total disappearance of coins from circulation. The Turró catalog documents thousands of these emissions, but the Oluges issues are among the more obscure — the town's population was, and remains, tiny, meaning print runs were correspondingly small and survival rates are low.
The thick card stock construction was typical of municipalities that lacked access to proper banknote paper and improvised with whatever the local printer had available.