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5 Céntimos Ellar
| Issuer | Comité Agrícola de Ellar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | COMITE AGRICOLA ELLAR (Jaen) CINCO CENTIMOS (Translation: Agricultural Committee Ellar (Jaen) Five Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Red letterpress text centered on plain paper, enclosed within a double dotted-line border incorporating simple geometric ornamental elements at the corners or margins. A handwritten serial number in black ink appears on the note, serving as a rudimentary control device. |
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Ellar is a small municipality in the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, in the Pyrenean interior of Catalonia. During the Civil War, hundreds of Catalan municipalities issued their own emergency paper fractional currency — vales or xèrics — to compensate for the acute shortage of metallic coinage that hit Republican-held territory after 1936. A comité agrícola as issuing authority places this note squarely in that framework: local agricultural committees frequently took on quasi-administrative roles in the early revolutionary period, including the improvised management of local exchange.
The Garrió-Moragas corpus for Catalan war-era local issues is incomplete, and an unassigned reference number here suggests this piece remains poorly documented.