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10 Céntimos Ellar
| Issuer | Comité Agrícola de Ellar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in red on plain paper within a double dotted-line border, the face carries a typographic layout naming the issuing authority and denomination in a plain, functional arrangement consistent with Spanish Civil War-era municipal emergency issues. A dark blue stripe runs along the perimeter inside the border. The inscription is centred on the field with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITE AGRICOLA ELLAR (Jaen) DIEZ Centimos. (Translation: Agricultural Committee Ellar (Jaen) Ten Centimos) |
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Ellar is a small municipality in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of Catalonia. During the Spanish Civil War, hundreds of local committees — agricultural cooperatives, municipal councils, anarchist collectives — issued their own fractional paper currency to address the near-total collapse of small coin circulation after July 1936. The Comité Agrícola de Ellar was one of the more obscure of these issuers; surviving examples are rarely catalogued with confidence, which likely explains the incomplete Gari Monografies reference number.
Production was almost certainly local — handset type, basic letterpress, minimal security features. These notes functioned within a single village economy and were never intended to travel far.