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| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Gerri de la Sal |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL GERRI DE LA SAL Val 0'20 Pts. (Translation: Municipal Council Gerri de la Sal Value 0.20 Pesetas) |
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| Reverse lettering | Val 20 Cts. (Translation: Value 20 Centimos) |
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Gerri de la Sal is a tiny salt-producing village in the Pallars Sobirà comarca of Catalonia, and like hundreds of similarly small municipalities it issued its own emergency paper money during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-zone coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation after 1936. These local issues — collectively called "guerra civil" notes or *moneda local* — were produced by town councils with whatever printing or duplicating resources were at hand, which in many cases meant little more than a rubber stamp and cardstock cut to size.
Turró catalogues this as #1117, placing it among the better-documented Catalan municipal issues, though surviving examples remain scarce given the improvised nature of production and the note's near-certain destruction after Franco's victory made Republican-issued paper politically dangerous to possess.