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1 Peseta Almoster
| Issuer | Ajuntament d'Almoster (Municipality of Almoster) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream-coloured cardboard note with all text printed by letterpress in dark blue-black ink. An oval municipal stamp bearing the initials 'SME' within a wreath is applied in blue ink at the upper left, serving as the sole vignette. A double rule separates the issuer's name at the top from the denomination text in the lower field, with the date 'ANY 1937' placed at the lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Completely unprinted reverse, showing only the plain, unadorned cardboard stock. |
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Almoster is a village in Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like dozens of similarly small Catalan municipalities, it issued its own emergency paper fractional currency in 1937 after the Republic's coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply exhausted by wartime demand. These local emissions, collectively known as *moneda de necessitat* or *moneda local*, were authorized under a decree that gave municipalities extraordinary latitude to plug the change shortage however they could manage.
Imprenta Solé of Tarragona printed for numerous small towns across the province, which is why several issues in this regional series share typographic characteristics despite coming from distinct issuing authorities.