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1 Peseta Pinell de Brai
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Pinell de Brai |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain light ground with a simple ruled rectangular border framing the entire face. The issuer's name, CONSELL MUNICIPAL - Pinell de Brai, is set in bold letterpress at the top, with the denomination UNA pesseta in large mixed typeface at centre. Two manuscript signature lines appear in the lower portion, each preceded by a printed role title. |
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| Reverse description | Dark blue letterpress text on an ocher-toned underprint vignette of the Celler Cooperatiu (Cooperative Wine Cellar) of Pinell de Brai, a modernist agricultural building designed by architect Cèsar Martinell i Brunet. The mandatory circulation clause and issuer details are printed across the face in two lines of capital text. |
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Pinell de Brai is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency — paper *moneda local* — to address the near-total disappearance of metallic coinage from circulation after 1936. These municipal issues were authorized under Republican decree but executed entirely at the local level, which accounts for the enormous variation in paper quality, printing method, and design sophistication across the series.
Turró catalogues this as a single-type emission. Given Pinell de Brai's size, surviving examples are genuinely scarce.