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50 Céntimos Olvena
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Olvena |
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| Size | 63 × 47 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in black by letterpress, with the issuing authority legend arranged in three lines within a rectangular double-rule border accented by decorative corner diamond motifs. The denomination numeral and unit appear in large bold type below the framed text panel, separated by a pair of parallel rules running the full width of the note. |
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| Protection description | Hand-applied oval violet municipal rubber stamp on reverse, serving as an authentication control mark. |
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Olvena is a village in the province of Huesca, Aragon, that by the late 1930s had a population numbering in the dozens. That a municipal council of this scale was issuing its own fractional paper currency is less surprising than it sounds — the Spanish Civil War's disruption of coin supply forced hundreds of tiny Republican-held municipalities to print their own emergency change notes, a phenomenon so widespread that specialist catalogs like Gari run to thousands of entries covering localities most Spaniards have never heard of.
The official stamp is the sole security feature, which was entirely typical for village-level issues where printing infrastructure was whatever happened to be locally available.