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5 Céntimos El Morell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'El Morell |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock printed in brown letterpress throughout. A double-line rectangular border frames the entire face, with a single horizontal rule dividing the field into two registers: the upper panel carries the issuer name in two lines of serif capitals, while the lower panel bears the denomination statement in large bold type. The design is entirely typographic with no pictorial vignette or ornamental underprint. |
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| Reverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'EL MORELL (Translation: Municipal Council of El Morell) |
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El Morell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Civil War it issued its own fractional emergency currency after the Republican government's decree of late 1936 authorizing local councils to fill the coin shortage. These tiny card pieces — referred to collectively as moneda local or paper moneda — were technically illegal tender beyond the issuing municipality's limits, which made them useless the moment you left town.
The municipal stamp served as the only real authentication. Turró's catalog documents over 1,600 such issuers across Catalonia alone.