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50 Céntimos El Rourell
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'El Rourell (Municipality of El Rourell) |
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| Printer | Imprenta Solé, Tarragona, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Typeset in violet ink within a scalloped guilloche border, the note bears the issuer name underlined across the upper portion with the denomination and purpose inscribed below. The coat of arms of Catalonia appears to the left of the central text block, serving as the primary vignette. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in violet ink, the reverse is framed by a scalloped guilloche border matching the obverse. An oval municipal stamp impression bearing a tree vignette and the legend 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL' and 'EL ROURELL' is applied to the left, with the series designation 'SÈRIE B.' at upper centre and a handwritten serial number to the right. |
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El Rourell is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when Republican Spain's coinage supply collapsed almost entirely after 1936. These local emergency notes — called *moneda municipal* or *moneda de necessitat* — were a strictly improvised response to the hoarding and disappearance of metal coin, sanctioned by the Generalitat de Catalunya but produced locally with whatever printer was at hand.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled several of these municipal commissions from the surrounding region. Turró's catalog documents over 2,200 such emissions across Catalonia; that El Rourell's issue falls at #2224 places it among the later-documented, smaller-run examples.