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5 Céntimos Bràfim
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Bràfim (Municipality of Bràfim) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Diameter | 32 mm |
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| Reverse description | Plain cardboard field bearing a three-line typeset legend in the upper portion reading S'ABONARÀ / AL PORTADOR, followed by a large bold numeral 5 in the center denoting the denomination, and the word CÈNTIMS at the base. All lettering is printed in blue ink, with no additional ornamental devices or imagery. The design is simple and functional, characteristic of emergency municipal issues produced during the Spanish Civil War. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Bràfim is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona, and like dozens of Catalan towns during the Spanish Civil War, it issued its own emergency fractional currency when Republican Spain collapsed into a coinage vacuum after silver and copper were hoarded or melted. These cardboard discs — technically *cartones* — were a strictly local solution, accepted only within the issuing municipality and worthless a few kilometers away. The Generalitat de Catalunya eventually moved to standardize emergency issues, but many towns had already been printing and cutting their own for months before any central guidance arrived.