Catalog
0.50 Pesetas Brull
| Issuer | El Brull, Municipality of |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper ground bearing a black oval municipal stamp impressed with the Catalan Arms vignette at centre, the face value hand-typed in blue typewriter ink below the stamp. The overall layout is characteristic of Civil War-era Catalan emergency fractional currency, relying on official municipality validation rather than any printed design. |
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| Reverse description | Completely plain, unprinted paper surface with no text, imagery, or markings of any kind, consistent with the rudimentary production method of Civil War-era Spanish municipal emergency notes. |
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El Brull is a tiny municipality in Osona, Barcelona province, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's 1936 decree authorizing local authorities to print small-denomination notes to replace hoarded coin. Turró 544 is among the more obscure entries in that catalog — El Brull's population was negligible, production quantities were small, and these notes circulated within a strictly local economy for a matter of months before the Nationalist advance rendered them worthless.
The near-square format is typical of the severe paper economy imposed on smaller municipalities, which could afford neither larger sheets nor professional printing.