Catalog
5 Pesetas Generalitat de Catalunya, Trial
| Issuer | Generalitat de Catalunya |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | The coat of arms of Catalonia is positioned to the left, flanked by an ear of wheat and a hammer as allegorical symbols of agriculture and industry respectively. The face bears the denomination numeral 5 alongside extensive Catalan-language text acknowledging the bearer's entitlement to five pesetas under the Decree of 11 September 1936. The date Barcelona, 15 September 1940 appears in the lower inscription block. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in green and carries a portrait vignette of Francesc Macià, President of Catalonia, facing right, with an olive branch motif to his right. The design is executed without any printed body text, leaving the field uncluttered around the central portrait. Denomination and institutional inscriptions are confined to the surrounding border area. |
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The Generalitat de Catalunya lost its autonomous government following Franco's forces entering Barcelona in January 1939, making any currency issued under that name in 1940 politically impossible within Spain. A trial piece dated 1940 suggests this was prepared in exile — the Generalitat maintained a government-in-exile, initially in France — rather than for actual domestic circulation, which never happened.
Turró's catalog remains the authoritative reference for Catalan civil war and transitional issues. The PGC-1 designation places this at the head of a series that effectively went nowhere.