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1 Peseta El Morell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'El Morell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 110 × 65 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'EL MORELL Aquesta Dipositària Municipal, en virtut de l'acord del vin-ti-u del corrent, abonarà al portador UNA PESSETA GENER DEL 1937. Validesa durant l'any 1937. (Translation: Municipal Council of El Morell. This Municipal Depository, by virtue of the agreement of the twenty-first of the current month, will pay to the bearer One Peseta. January 1937. Valid during the year 1937.) |
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| Reverse lettering | Sèrie C CONSELL MUNICIPAL d'EL MORELL (Translation: Series C Municipal Council of El Morell) |
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El Morell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued its own emergency paper currency when the Republican government's coin supply collapsed after 1936. These municipal notes — collectively catalogued under the broader billetes locales phenomenon — were legal only within the issuing municipality's borders, backed by nothing more than the council's word and the practical necessity of day-to-day commerce.
Turró's cataloguing of this series documented over two thousand such local issuers. El Morell's entry at #1619 places it well into that long inventory of small-town fiscal improvisation.