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25 Céntimos Pinell de Brai
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Pinell de Brai |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1840 |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL - Pinell de Brai VINT-I-CINC cèntims El Caixer, El President del Consell, (Translation: Municipal Council - Pinell de Brai Twenty-five Centimes The Cashier, The President of the Council) |
| Reverse description | Typeset text printed in blue ink on a yellow background, with a vignette of the Celler Cooperatiu winery building — a notable work of architect Cèsar Martinell i Brunet — serving as the central design element. The mandatory circulation notice is set in smaller type surrounding the vignette, with the denomination numeral repeated at the lower right. A plain rectangular border frames the entire composition. |
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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 in the summer of 1936, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's metallic coinage vanished almost overnight from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absorbed by the chaos following the July uprising. These municipal emissions were technically illegal under Spanish monetary law but were tolerated, even encouraged at the regional level, because the alternative was a complete collapse of petty commerce.
Turró's cataloguing of over two thousand such local issues gives a sense of scale. Most surviving examples from Terra Alta municipalities show heavy use.