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0.05 Pesetas Rajadell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Rajadell |
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| Size | 55 × 31 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured card stock printed in dark brown by letterpress. A sawtooth-pattern border frames the entire face, with a double horizontal rule dividing the upper inscription from the lower denomination statement. The issuer name appears in the upper half in serif type, while the value numeral '0'05' is set in bold, enlarged type to the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on plain cream-coloured card stock, with no text, vignette, or ornament of any kind. |
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Rajadell is a municipality in Barcelona province with a population that, during the Civil War, rarely exceeded a few hundred souls. Like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish municipalities in 1936–1937, it issued its own fractional paper currency when Republican authorities failed to supply enough small coinage — centimos had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted down. These hyper-local emissions were legal under a General Catalan decree but had no validity beyond the issuing municipality's borders, sometimes just a single village.
The Turró catalogue documents over two thousand such issues. That this 5-céntim note survives at all is mildly remarkable given the card stock, the tiny format, and the deliberate destruction of Republican-era material after 1939.