Sarrià de Ter is a small municipality in the Girona province of Catalonia, and this cardboard piece belongs to the wave of emergency local currency — *moneda local de necessitat* — issued by dozens of Catalan towns and villages during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's metal coinage collapsed from hoarding and wartime disruption. Cardboard issues like this were produced under genuinely improvised conditions, often by local printers with no minting infrastructure whatsoever, which accounts for the wide variation in print quality and paper thickness found across surviving examples.
Sarrià de Ter is a small municipality in the Girona province of Catalonia, and this cardboard piece belongs to the wave of emergency local currency — *moneda local de necessitat* — issued by dozens of Catalan towns and villages during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government's metal coinage collapsed from hoarding and wartime disruption. Cardboard issues like this were produced under genuinely improvised conditions, often by local printers with no minting infrastructure whatsoever, which accounts for the wide variation in print quality and paper thickness found across surviving examples.