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1 Peseta Els Omellons
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Els Omellons (Municipality of Els Omellons) |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Entirely typeset letterpress composition printed in black on plain stock, enclosed within a triple-rule rectangular border. The issuer name appears underlined at the top, followed by the denomination and a guarantee clause distributed across several lines in a strictly utilitarian layout characteristic of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain field on yellowed card stock, bearing a partially legible red oval municipal handstamp applied off-centre, its ink faded and impression incomplete, serving as the authenticating validation mark applied at the point of issue. |
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Els Omellons is a tiny municipality in the Garrigues comarca of Lleida, Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. This note belongs to the emergency fractional currency — known collectively as "moneda local" or "paper moneda" — that erupted across Catalan towns and villages following the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, when metallic coin disappeared from circulation almost overnight through hoarding and requisition.
Turró catalogues over two thousand distinct Catalan local issues from this period. That Els Omellons produced its own rather than relying on a neighboring ayuntamiento reflects just how atomized the emergency monetary response was at the municipal level.