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1 Peseta Darmós
| Issuer | Sub Municipi de Darmós |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed entirely in red letterpress on cream card stock, the face is enclosed within a serrated single-line rectangular border. The issuer's name SUB MUNICIPI - DARMÓS appears in bold capitals at the top, followed by a promise-to-pay legend in smaller italic script above the large central denomination text UNA PESSETA. The lower register carries the place and date of issue, the legal-tender clause De curs forçós a Darmós, and two manuscript signatures below the titles L'Alcalde and El Dipositari. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 UNA PESSETA (Translation: One Peseta) |
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Darmós is a village in the Terra Alta comarca of Tarragona with a population that barely reached a few hundred during the Civil War years. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, it was forced into issuing its own emergency fractional currency after the Republic's small-denomination coinage disappeared almost entirely from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply swallowed by the war economy. The Generalitat had authorized these local issues, but standardization was minimal and each municipality essentially produced what it could.
Turró's catalog documents this as a single denomination for Darmós, suggesting the commune's monetary needs were modest. Thick card stock was a common choice for villages without access to proper banknote paper.