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1 Peseta La Cellera de Ter
| Issuer | La Cellera de Ter, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPI DE LA CELLERA DE TER Una pta. Reintegrable per la Caixa Municipal segons acord 6 - 8 - 37 (Translation: Municipality of La Cellera de Ter One Peseta Refundable by the Caixa Municipal according to agreement 6 - August - 37) |
| Reverse description | Vignette of the Pasteral lock on the river Ter, with a dramatic 26-metre waterfall and the surrounding marshland landscape, the dam dating from 1920. The denomination is printed in bold numerals at centre. |
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La Cellera de Ter is a small municipality in the Girona province of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similar towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's central supply of small-denomination coinage collapsed entirely. These locally-produced notes — collectively catalogued across thousands of entries in Turró — were the improvised solution to a real and immediate problem: markets functioned, but there was nothing to make change with.
The Turró census documents this specific emission, but surviving examples are genuinely difficult to locate, as most small-municipality issues were redeemed, lost, or simply discarded when their utility ended with the war.