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10 Céntimos Pinell de Brai
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Pinell de Brai |
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| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream card stock with all text applied by letterpress in black ink. The issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL / PINELL DE BRAI' is set in bold block capitals across the upper portion, followed by a handwritten serial number field beneath the printed 'Núm.' designation. The denomination 'Val 10 cèntims' is printed in large bold type at the foot of the note. A circular municipal ink stamp in red is applied over the face, serving as the primary validation device. |
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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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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.