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50 Céntimos Morella
| Issuer | Cooperativa de Pueblo de Morella |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in light grey on plain paper, the note is framed by a geometric border running the full perimeter. The municipal coat of arms of Morella is positioned to the left, with the denomination and issuing authority text arranged across the face in letterpress typography. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is plain and unprinted, characteristic of locally produced Spanish Civil War emergency currency issued by municipalities, cooperatives, and unions in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, to address the acute shortage of small-denomination fiduciary currency in circulation. |
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Morella is a hill town in Castellón province, and by 1937 it sat within Republican-held territory where the near-total collapse of small coin circulation had forced hundreds of municipalities, cooperatives, and local bodies to print their own emergency fractional paper. This note is one of those — issued by the town's own cooperative rather than any banking authority, filling a gap that the Republican government acknowledged but couldn't solve fast enough.
Local emergency issues from this period were printed in tiny runs, often on whatever stock was available, and saw genuinely hard daily use in a wartime economy. Survival rates are low precisely because nobody was preserving them.