Catalog
0.50 Pesetas Rajadell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Rajadell |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL RAJADELL VAL per 0`50 (Translation: Municipal Council Rajadell Voucher for 0.50) |
| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse of tan card stock, showing bleed-through of the obverse letterpress impression in mirror image. A handwritten collector notation appears in the upper right corner. The serrated zigzag border from the obverse is faintly visible around the perimeter through the card. |
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Rajadell is a small municipality in the Bages comarca of Catalonia, with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. During the Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small-denomination coinage almost immediately after July 1936, and local councils across Catalonia — including dozens of villages with no meaningful financial infrastructure — were authorized under Generalitat decree to issue their own emergency paper money. Rajadell's fractional notes fall squarely into this wave.
The Turró catalogue documents thousands of these local Catalan emissions, and Rajadell's are among the more obscure — low print runs, thin surviving populations, and essentially no formal redemption once the Nationalist forces took the region in early 1939.