1 Peseta Almoster

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.