Catalog
5 Céntimos Sarrià de Ter
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Sarrià de Ter (Municipality of Sarrià de Ter) |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#2296 |
| Obverse description | Plain square card stock note printed in dark blue letterpress. A double-rule rectangular border frames the entire face, with the issuing authority name 'AJUNTAMENT' at the top, separated by a horizontal rule from the central denomination inscription 'Val / 5 cts.' in bold display type. The municipality name 'SARRIÁ DE TER' appears within a lower panel, likewise bounded by a horizontal rule. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, with the natural off-white texture of the thick card stock visible across the full surface. |
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Sarrià de Ter is a small municipality in the Gironès comarca, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when metallic coin disappeared almost entirely from circulation in 1936–37. These tiny square pieces — and the square format itself is unusual even among the wildly varied local emissions of that period — were produced locally under the authority of the Republican municipal government, almost certainly on whatever card stock was available rather than purpose-made banknote paper.
Turró's catalog documents over 2,000 distinct Catalan municipal issues from this period. The sheer number made quality control irrelevant; survival was the only standard.