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50 Céntimos Pinell de Brai
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Pinell de Brai |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress note printed in green ink over a yellow dotted underprint, enclosed within a plain rectangular ruled border. The issuer's name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL - Pinell de Brai' is set at the upper margin, with the denomination 'CINQUANTA cèntims' in large bold lettering occupying the central field. Two manuscript signatures appear below, each beneath the respective printed titles 'El Caixer' and 'El President del Consell'. |
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| Reverse description | Green letterpress text on a yellow underprint, centred on a vignette of the Celler Cooperatiu cooperative winery building of Pinell de Brai, a noted modernista architectural work by Cèsar Martinell i Brunet. The mandatory circulation legend is arranged in horizontal lines surrounding the vignette, the whole composition enclosed within a simple ruled border frame. |
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Pinell de Brai is a small municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Aragonese towns during the Civil War, its local council issued emergency fractional currency when the Republic's small-change supply collapsed entirely in 1936–37. These municipal emissions — collectively catalogued in the tens of thousands of types across Spain — were stopgap instruments, often printed on whatever stock was available locally and valid only within the issuing community.
Turró's catalogue remains the primary reference for these Catalan war issues, and number 1839 places this emission among the later-registered Terra Alta pieces.