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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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| Size | 163 × 68 mm |
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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 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.