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2.50 Pesetas Generalitat de Catalunya, Trial

Issuer Generalitat de Catalunya (Treasury)
Year 1940
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Value 2.50 Pesetas (2.50 ESP)
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Obverse description The coat of arms of Catalonia is positioned to the left, accompanied by an ear of wheat and a hammer and cogwheel, serving as allegorical emblems of agriculture and industry respectively. The surrounding text contains the full Catalan-language obligation legend with the issuing authority, denomination in words, and the authorizing decree date. The note bears the Barcelona issuance date of 13 September 1940.
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Reverse lettering PTES. 2`50 MONTSENY
(Translation: 2.50 Pesetas Montseny)
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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.

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