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5 Pesetas Generalitat de Catalunya, Trial
| Issuer | Generalitat de Catalunya |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Value | 5 Pesetas (5 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | 5 GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA La Tresoreria de la Generalitat reconeix a favor del portador la quantitat de CINC PESSETES en virtut del Decret 11 setembre 1936. Barcelona, 15 setembre 1940 BITLLET OBLIGATORI A CATALUNYA (Translation: Generalitat de Catalunya The Treasury of the Generalitat recognizes in favor of the bearer the amount of Five Pesetas by virtue of the Decree of September 11, 1936 Barcelona, September 15, 1940 Mandatory banknote in Catalonia) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 PTES. PRESIDENT FRANCESC MACIÀ GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA (Translation: 5 Pesetas President Francesc Macia Government of Catalonia) |
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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.