Sarrià de Ter is a small municipality in the Girona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency cardboard currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These locally printed pieces — technically vales or moneda local — were never intended to outlast the war, which makes intact survivors rarer than their humble materials suggest.
Sarrià de Ter is a small municipality in the Girona comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency cardboard currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These locally printed pieces — technically vales or moneda local — were never intended to outlast the war, which makes intact survivors rarer than their humble materials suggest.