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0.10 Pesetas Rajadell
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Rajadell |
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| Year | |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Typeset letterpress emergency voucher printed in black on cream card stock, with a serrated zigzag border running along all four edges. The issuing authority "CONSELL MUNICIPAL" and locality name "RAJADELL" are set in bold uppercase lettering in the upper portion, separated from the denomination legend by a horizontal rule. The lower half carries the value inscription "VAL per 0'10" in large bold type, with the numeral "0'10" in a noticeably larger font size. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, showing the plain cream-coloured card stock surface with no text, vignette, or ornamentation of any kind. |
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Rajadell is a small municipality in Barcelona province, and like hundreds of Catalan townships during the Spanish Civil War, its local council issued fractional paper currency to address the acute shortage of small coins after 1936. These emergency emissions — collectively catalogued under the broader *billetes locales* framework — were produced under wildly varying conditions: some by established printers, many by local presses with no experience in security printing whatsoever. Rajadell's issues fall firmly in the latter camp.
The thick card construction was a practical workaround, not an aesthetic choice — heavier stock survived pocket and counter wear better than thin paper in short-run municipal issues meant to circulate within a single town's market.