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1 Peseta Portell de Morella
| Issuer | Consejo Municipal de Portell de Morella |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain letterpress note on white paper with a group of five vertical black bars along the left margin, serving as a rudimentary decorative border. The denomination numeral '1' and the word 'PESETA' are printed vertically to the left of the bars, while the heading 'EL CONSEJO MUNICIPAL' appears in large bold capitals across the upper portion. Below, the promise-to-pay text and place-date are printed in mixed typefaces, with a manuscript signature of the Depositario occupying the lower half. |
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| Reverse description | Otherwise blank reverse bearing a large oval municipal stamp applied in violet ink, enclosing the arms of Portell de Morella at centre and the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE MORELLA' around the perimeter, with two stars flanking the text. A handwritten serial number appears within the stamp impression. |
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Portell de Morella is a small municipality in the comarca of Els Ports, Castellón — a community of a few hundred souls that nonetheless issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War as the Republican zone's fractional currency crisis made small change effectively impossible to find. These hyper-local emissions, known collectively as billetes de necesidad, were authorized by decree but produced with whatever materials each council had on hand, which is why the security features on most examples amount to little more than an administrative rubber stamp.
The Garicoin reference places this among the better-documented Valencian municipal issues, though survival rates for these tiny notes are erratic — they were never legal tender beyond the issuing municipality itself.