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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 description | Printed on tan card stock in dark blue letterpress throughout. The design is enclosed by a continuous serrated zigzag border running the full perimeter, with a secondary fine double rule inset below the upper text block. The issuer name 'CONSELL MUNICIPAL / RAJADELL' appears in spaced capitals in the upper half, separated from the large-format denomination statement 'VAL per O'50' in the lower half. |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSELL MUNICIPAL RAJADELL VAL per 0`50 (Translation: Municipal Council Rajadell Voucher for 0.50) |
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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.