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10 Céntimos El Morell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'El Morell |
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| Value | 10 Centimos (0.10 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL El Morell VAL per 10 cèntims (Translation: Municipal Council El Morell Valid for 10 Centimos) |
| Reverse description | Plain cream-coloured reverse, largely unadorned, with a single black letterpress serial number centred in the lower portion of the note and a handwritten notation in the upper right area, reflecting the minimal security and production resources available to municipal issuers during the Spanish Civil War period. |
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El Morell is a small municipality in Tarragonès, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War, it resorted to locally produced emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-change crisis made coins effectively unavailable from 1936 onward. These municipal issues — collectively catalogued by Andreu Turró — were typically produced in tiny print runs by whatever local means were available, often a town printer or even a rubber stamp on card.
At 53 × 48 mm and printed on heavy card stock, this piece was built to survive pocket wear better than thinner issues, though the survival rate for El Morell's emissions remains low given the scale of destruction in the postwar period.