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50 Céntimos Ellar
| Issuer | Comité Agrícola de Ellar |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red on white paper, the note is framed by a double dotted border with a dark blue stripe running along the perimeter. The central field bears the issuing authority inscription and denomination in bold letterpress type. A plain, unadorned layout typical of wartime emergency local issues. |
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| Reverse lettering | CINCUENTA CENTIMOS (Translation: Fifty Centimos) |
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Ellar is a tiny municipality in the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, Lleida. During the Spanish Civil War, dozens of Catalan villages and agricultural committees issued their own fractional emergency currency when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation in 1936–37. The Comité Agrícola de Ellar's 50 céntimos falls squarely into that phenomenon — a hyperlocal response to a nationwide metallic coin shortage, valid only within the immediate community that issued it.
The Gari Moncusi catalogue reference is incomplete, suggesting the piece remains poorly documented or was recorded without a confirmed surviving specimen at the time of compilation.