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1 Peseta Ellar

Issuer Comité Agrícola de Ellar
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Composition Paper
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Obverse lettering COMITE AGRICOLA ELLAR (Jaen) UNA Peseta.
(Translation: Agricultural Committee Ellar (Jaen) One Peseta)
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Reverse lettering UNA PESETA
(Translation: One Peseta)
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Ellar is a small municipality in the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, in the Catalan Pyrenees. Like dozens of similarly tiny settlements, its local committee issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight following the July 1936 uprising. These hyper-local issues — often printed in runs of a few hundred — were backed by nothing more than the authority and reputation of whoever signed them.

The Gari Mon reference is unresolved, which suggests surviving documentation on this specific emission is thin. That alone makes physical survivors more valuable to researchers than to generalist collectors.