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1 Peseta Ellar
| Issuer | Comité Agrícola de Ellar |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Text-only design printed in red letterpress on plain paper, enclosed within a double dotted border and a dark blue outer stripe running along the perimeter. The central inscription identifies the issuing authority and denomination. |
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| Reverse description | Plain text layout printed in red letterpress, enclosed within a double dotted border with geometric corner ornaments. A handwritten serial number in black ink appears on the note. |
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Ellar is a small municipality in the comarca of Pallars Sobirà, in the Catalan Pyrenees. Like dozens of similarly tiny settlements, its local committee issued emergency paper fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War after metallic coinage vanished from circulation almost overnight following the July 1936 uprising. These hyper-local issues — often printed in runs of a few hundred — were backed by nothing more than the authority and reputation of whoever signed them.
The Gari Mon reference is unresolved, which suggests surviving documentation on this specific emission is thin. That alone makes physical survivors more valuable to researchers than to generalist collectors.