5 Céntimos El Morell

El Morell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns, it issued its own emergency paper money during the Civil War after the Republican government's decree of 1937 authorized local councils to produce small-denomination currency to address the chronic shortage of coin. The Turró catalog documents over two thousand such issues, and the El Morell series is among the more obscure — the town's population at the time was well under a thousand, meaning total print runs were almost certainly tiny.

Thick card stock was the practical choice for the smallest denominations; it survives rough handling better than thin paper and was harder to counterfeit convincingly at village scale.