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10 Céntimos Pinell de Brai

Issuer Consell Municipal de Pinell de Brai
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Size 50 × 34 mm
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Reverse description Unprinted cream card stock, the reverse bearing only a handwritten notation in violet ink near the upper centre, consistent with a collector or inventory marking applied after issue. The fibrous texture of the thick card support is clearly visible across the entire surface.
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Protection description Circular red municipal ink stamp applied to the obverse as a validation device
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Pinell de Brai is a small municipality in Terra Alta, Tarragona, and like dozens of similarly sized Catalan and Aragonese towns, it issued its own emergency fractional currency during the Spanish Civil War when Republican-zone coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1936. The Consell Municipal — the locally elected republican council — had the authority to print what it needed, which produced an enormous variety of hyper-local scrip across the region, most of it crudely produced and circulating only within the issuing township.

Turró catalogues this as #1841, a reference that places it within the broader corpus of over two thousand documented Spanish Civil War municipal issues.

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