Bràfim is a village in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely reached 600 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency cardboard currency after the banking system collapsed and Republican authorities proved unable to distribute sufficient small coinage to the interior. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized these local emissions in 1937, but production standards, durability, and design were entirely the municipality's problem to solve.
Cardboard of this diameter survives poorly — humidity, handling, and wartime conditions destroyed most examples within years of issue.
Bràfim is a village in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely reached 600 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own emergency cardboard currency after the banking system collapsed and Republican authorities proved unable to distribute sufficient small coinage to the interior. The Generalitat de Catalunya formally authorized these local emissions in 1937, but production standards, durability, and design were entirely the municipality's problem to solve.
Cardboard of this diameter survives poorly — humidity, handling, and wartime conditions destroyed most examples within years of issue.