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1 Peseta Morella
| Issuer | Morella, Municipality of |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | UNA PESETA COOPERATIVA DEL PUEBLO Pagará al portador UNA PESETA MORELLA, 23 Febrero 1937. (Translation: One Peseta People's Cooperative Will pay the bearer One Peseta Morella, February 23, 1937) |
| Reverse description | Plain or lightly printed reverse typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency issues, carrying no major vignette or complex design, consistent with the rudimentary production standards of locally issued wartime fractional currency from the Province of Castellón. |
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Morella is a walled hilltop town in Castellón province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Valencian municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when the Republic's centésimo coinage disappeared from circulation almost overnight in 1936–37. These local emissions — often called "moneda municipal de necessitat" — filled a gap the central government couldn't address fast enough. Most were produced under improvised conditions, sometimes by local printers with no banknote experience, which accounts for the wide variation in paper quality and impression across surviving examples.
The Gari reference number is unassigned, suggesting either incomplete cataloguing or extreme rarity in the specialist literature.