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1 Peseta Osor
| Issuer | Osor, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | The note is printed in red letterpress on a violet geometric guilloche underprint, enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. The issuing authority and denomination are stated in Catalan across the central field, with text arranged in a formal typographic layout typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse mirrors the obverse layout, with red letterpress text on a violet geometric guilloche underprint, framed by a double-line perimeter border. The face value numeral appears in each corner, with the mandatory circulation clause in Catalan occupying the central area. |
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Osor is a small municipality in the Selva comarca of Girona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it resorted to issuing its own emergency paper currency when the collapse of normal banking channels left local commerce without a functional medium of exchange. These municipal fractional notes — collectively catalogued under the broader *bitllets locals* phenomenon — were typically produced in very small runs by whatever printer was accessible, often a provincial job shop.
Imprenta Cabruja operated out of Girona and handled a number of these wartime municipal commissions from the surrounding region. The Turró reference places this firmly within that documented corpus.