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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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| Size | 88 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed by letterpress on light pink card stock, the obverse is enclosed within a double-rule rectangular border. The denomination numeral '50' appears in a ruled box at upper left, with 'CENTIMS' below; to the right, the issuing authority 'El Consell Municipal de Pinell' is set in bold display type above a promissory legend in smaller roman type. The word amount 'CINQUANTA cèntims' is printed in large mixed-weight display lettering across the centre. The lower portion carries a hand-stamped serial number at left, the date 'Juny de l'any 1937', and a manuscript treasurer's signature accompanied by an oval ink stamp at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely plain light pink card stock, unprinted save for a circular red municipal dry stamp applied at centre, bearing the legend 'CONSEJO MUNICIPAL DE PINELL DE BRAY' around its perimeter with a denticulated inner ring. |
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Pinell de Brai is a small wine-producing municipality in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona, and like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish towns during the Civil War, it issued its own fractional currency in 1937 when Republican-zone coin shortages became acute. The Generalitat de Catalunya had authorized local emergency emissions, and Josep Bassa's print shop in nearby Mora d'Ebre — roughly 10 kilometers away — produced notes for several surrounding municipalities in this period, making it one of the more identifiable regional printers in the Turró corpus.
Thick card stock was a deliberate choice at this scale of production, intended to extend circulation life for notes that would pass through the same few hundred hands repeatedly.