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50 Céntimos El Morell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal d'El Morell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in lilac-purple ink on buff paper within a plain rectangular double-rule border composed of a fine toothed outer frame. The issuing authority 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL D'EL MORELL' is set in bold spaced capitals across the top, followed by a two-line payment obligation text in italics, with the denomination '50 CÈNTIMS' in bold letterpress at centre flanked by typographic ornaments. The date 'GENER DEL 1937' appears at lower right, balanced by the validity notice 'Validesa durant l'any 1937' at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in lilac-purple ink on buff paper within a rectangular toothed border matching the obverse frame. The centre carries the coat of arms of Catalonia alongside a circular municipal stamp. The series designation and issuing authority inscription are printed in spaced capitals. |
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El Morell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its municipal council issued its own emergency fractional currency when coin shortages made small transactions nearly impossible. The Republican government's inability to maintain an adequate supply of low-denomination coinage pushed this responsibility down to the most local level imaginable — villages of a few hundred inhabitants were suddenly in the business of printing money.
Turró catalogues this as 1620, placing it firmly within the enormous body of Catalan municipal issues from 1936–1938, most of which had hyper-local circulation and were redeemed, lost, or destroyed shortly after the Nationalist advance into the region in early 1939.