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10 Pesetas Generalitat de Catalunya
| Issuer | Generalitat de Catalunya |
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| Year | 1936 |
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| Printer | Oliva de Vilanova, Barcelona |
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| Obverse description | The obverse carries the coat of arms of Catalonia at left, flanked by allegorical vignettes of an ear of wheat and a hammer symbolising agriculture and industry respectively. The design is executed in a letterpress style with the denomination numeral and extensive Catalan-language text occupying the central and lower registers. |
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| Obverse lettering | 10 GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA La tresoreria de la Generalitat reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de DEU PESSETES en virtut del Decret del 21 setembre 1936 Barcelona, 25 setembre 1936 BITLLET DE CURS OBLIGATORI A CATALUNYA (Translation: Generalitat de Catalunya The Treasury of the Generalitat recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Ten Pesetas by virtue of the Decree of September 21, 1936 Barcelona, September 25, 1936 Mandatory course banknote in Catalonia) |
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Issued in the opening weeks of the Civil War, this note was part of the Generalitat's emergency response to an acute coin shortage — Franco's uprising had paralyzed normal monetary supply chains, and small-denomination metal currency had been hoarded or melted almost immediately. The Catalan autonomous government, operating with genuine administrative independence it had only recently won under the Republic's 1932 Statute of Autonomy, moved quickly to fill the gap before Madrid could act.
Oliva de Vilanova was a commercial press, not a security printer. The relative ease with which these notes could be reproduced was recognized at the time.