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0.50 Pesetas Olèstria
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Olèstria (Municipality of Olèstria) |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament d'Olèstria reconeix al portador la quantitat de 0'50 Pessetes El Conseller d'Economia N.º (Translation: City Council of Olèstria recognizes to the bearer the amount of 0.50 Pesetas / The Councillor of Economy / No.) |
| Reverse description | Plain unprinted reverse on light blue paper stock, devoid of any text, vignette, or ornamental design. |
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Olèstria — the Catalan name for the municipality of Olius, in the comarca of Solsonès — issued emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican government's inability to maintain a supply of small coins created a vacuum filled by thousands of local ayuntamientos across Catalonia. The Generalitat authorized this practice in 1936, and by 1937 even villages of a few hundred inhabitants were producing their own paper fractions.
Turró's catalog remains the definitive reference for these Catalan municipals, and a listing at #1684 places this squarely in the documented — if thinly circulated — provincial issues.