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1 Peseta El Rourell
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Rourell (Municipality of El Rourell) |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain white field enclosed within a dotted geometric perimeter border printed in dark blue ink. A circular municipal seal bearing a tree vignette and the legend 'MUNICIPAL EL ROURELL' is applied by handstamp to the left, alongside a sequential serial number. The series designation appears in the upper portion of the field. |
| Reverse lettering | SÈRIE A. No. (Translation: Series A. No.) |
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El Rourell is a tiny municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish townships it issued its own emergency fractional currency — "moneda local" — during the Civil War after the Republic's small-denomination coinage effectively disappeared from circulation by 1936–37. These local issues were a practical stopgap, not a political statement, though the Republican municipal councils that authorized them varied wildly in how professionally they approached the task.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a number of these small-town commissions in the province, which accounts for the shared visual grammar across several Turró-catalogued Tarragona-area notes. El Rourell's issue is among the more obscure in the sequence — surviving examples surface infrequently, reflecting a small original print run serving a genuinely small population.