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2 Pesetas Pinell de Brai
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Pinell de Brai |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note on thick card stock printed in black, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The denomination numeral "2" appears in a ruled box at upper left alongside the legend "PESSETES", while the issuing authority "El Consell Municipal de Pinell" is set in bold type across the upper register. The value in words "DOS pessetes" is struck in large bold type across the centre, with a hand-stamped red date impression at lower right alongside the manuscript serial number on a lined field; the printer's imprint "Bassa.—Mora de Ebro" appears at the lower right margin. |
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| Reverse description | Plain card stock reverse, entirely unprinted save for a circular red municipal validation stamp applied off-centre toward the upper left. The stamp bears a serrated outer ring with a star device and the legend of the issuing municipality. |
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Pinell de Brai is a village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese municipalities during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency when Republican-zone coins effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply never restocked. The Consell Municipal turned to Josep Bassa's print shop in nearby Mora d'Ebre, which supplied emergency notes to several surrounding towns during this period, making Bassa something of a regional monopolist in wartime municipal scrip.
The official stamp serves as the primary authenticity control — a thin line of defense for a note whose entire economic authority rested on local trust and the absence of alternatives. Turró catalogues this as #1832.