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2.50 Pesetas Generalitat de Catalunya, Trial
| Issuer | Generalitat de Catalunya (Treasury) |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Obverse lettering | 2`50 GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA BITLLET DE CURS FORÇÓS OBLIGATORI A CATALUNYA La Tresoreria de la Generalitat reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de DUES PTES. CINQUANTA CÈNTS. en virtut del Decret del 5 de setembre del 1936. Barcelona, 13 setembre 1940 (Translation: Generalitat de Catalunya Mandatory course banknote in Catalonia The Treasury of the Generalitat recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Two Pesetas Fifty Centimos by virtue of the Decree of September 5, 1936 Barcelona, September 13, 1940) |
| Reverse description | A central vignette in orange presents an engraved landscape view of the Montseny massif, rendered with fine line work evoking the rocky peaks and foothills, with a small rural structure visible at the base; a banner scroll inscribed "MONTSENY" arches above the mountain range. The denomination "PTES. 2'50" appears in large olive-green numerals along the left margin, set against a guilloche-patterned green border that frames the entire composition. A circular punch-hole cancellation is visible to the right of centre, consistent with the trial or specimen status of this note. |
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The Generalitat de Catalunya's treasury notes were a product of wartime fiscal improvisation — the autonomous Catalan government issued its own currency during the Civil War years, a direct assertion of administrative independence that Madrid never formally recognized. By 1940, the Republic had collapsed and Franco's government was consolidating power; a trial piece bearing that date is almost certainly a proof or specimen produced after the issuing authority had ceased to function, possibly preserved from plates or stock that survived the war.
The Turró reference PGC-2 places this within a very small documented group. Trial pieces from suppressed regional authorities are among the more historically loaded survivors in Iberian notaphily.