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25 Céntimos La Cellera de Ter
| Issuer | Municipi de la Cellera de Ter |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#799 |
| Obverse description | Central vignette of high-voltage electricity pylons, referencing the local hydroelectric production at the Pasteral marsh plant on the river Ter, rendered in a plain letterpress style characteristic of wartime Catalan municipal emergency issues. The issuing authority, denomination, and redemption conditions are set in typeset inscriptions surrounding the central image. The note bears no ornamental guilloche work, consistent with the austere production standards of Civil War-era Catalan municipal scrip. |
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| Obverse lettering | MUNICIPI DE LA CELLERA DE TER 25 cts. Reintegrable per la Caixa Municipal segons acord 6 - 8 - 37 (Translation: Municipality of La Cellera de Ter 25 Centimos Refundable by the Caixa Municipal according to agreement 6 - August - 37) |
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La Cellera de Ter is a small municipality in the Girona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency in 1937 after Republican decree authorized local authorities to produce small-denomination notes to compensate for the near-total disappearance of metallic coin from circulation. These municipal issues were produced locally, often by whatever printer or even typewriter was available, which accounts for the enormous variation in paper quality and impression across the series.
Turró catalogues this as #799 — deep in a sequence of Girona-province issues that remain genuinely difficult to locate today, partly because the print runs were small and partly because most were demonetized and discarded after the Nationalist advance into Catalonia in early 1939.