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25 Céntimos Pinell de Brai
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de El Pinell de Brai |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 25 Centimos (0.25 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress note printed in black on white card stock, enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The denomination numeral '25' appears in a bold blackletter typeface within a square frame at the upper left, with 'CENTIMS' below it; to the right, the issuing authority's name and a bearer clause are set in mixed roman and blackletter types. The value in words, 'VINT-I-CINC cèntims', is printed in a large display typeface across the centre, with the serial number and date at the lower left and a manuscript treasurer's signature accompanied by a circular blue ink validation stamp at the lower right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 25 CENTIMS El Consell Municipal de Pinell reconeix a favor del portador, la quantitat de VINT-I-CINC cèntims Número [serial] Juny de l'any 1937 El Tresorer, (Translation: 25 Centimos The Municipal Council of Pinell recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Twenty-five Centimos Number [serial] June of the year 1937 The Treasurer,) |
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El Pinell de Brai is a small wine-producing municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican-controlled towns in 1937, it issued its own fractional emergency currency when the Civil War severed reliable coin supply from the central government. These local *moneda municipal* issues were technically sanctioned under a decree from the Generalitat de Catalunya, but in practice the designs, materials, and print quality varied wildly from one town to the next.
Imprenta Josep Bassa in Mora d'Ebre handled a number of these small-run municipal issues for Terra Alta communities — a regional printer pressed into an unusual monetary role. The thick card stock was a practical choice when proper banknote paper was unavailable, though it wore poorly in daily use.