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1 Peseta El Morell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'El Morell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Composition | Paper (Thick paper or card stock) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in dark blue on cream card stock, the note is enclosed within a decorative rectangular border of fine geometric and foliate letterpress ornaments. The issuing authority "CONSELL MUNICIPAL EL MORELL" appears in bold capitals at the top, with the denomination "UNA Pesseta" in large display type at centre. The text of the obligation, validity date (Gener del 1937), and the legal tender notice "De curs forços al Morell" are set in italic script, filling the remaining field. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in dark blue on cream card stock, the reverse is enclosed within a geometric rectangular border with decorative corner pieces. The denomination "1 Pta." appears in the upper-left and lower-right corners in panel cartouches, with "Sèrie C." in bold italic script at centre-left. A handwritten serial number and a circular violet municipal validation stamp of the Consell Municipal d'El Morell are applied centrally, with two small star ornaments flanking the series inscription. |
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El Morell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, its council issued emergency fractional currency in 1937 after the Republican government's decree of September 1936 effectively authorized local bodies to print their own small change. The national coinage had nearly vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent — and the gap had to be filled somehow.
Turró catalogues this as a single type, suggesting the issue was modest and probably short-lived. The municipal stamp is the only anti-counterfeiting measure, which was typical for issues from villages with no access to proper printing infrastructure.