Catalog
1 Peseta Golmés
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Golmés (Municipality of Golmés) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed note on pink paper with dark brown ink, framed by a double-rule border with a continuous square-dot pattern at the perimeter and decorative corner blocks. The issuer name 'AJUNTAMENT DE GOLMÉS' is set in bold capitals across the upper portion, above the large denomination legend 'Val per UNA Pta.' A handwritten serial number prefixed by 'Nº' appears at lower left, accompanied by a manuscript signature of the Municipal Comptroller (L'Interventor Municipal) at centre-right, with the mandatory circulation clause 'DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL' running along the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GOLMÉS Val per UNA Pta. Per acord de l'Ajuntament L'Interventor Municipal, Nº DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Golmés / Worth One Peseta / By agreement of the City Council / The Municipal Comptroller, / No. / Legal tender throughout the entire Municipal District) |
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Golmés is a small agricultural municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, with a population that barely reached 1,000 during the 1930s. Like hundreds of Catalan and Spanish Republican municipalities during the Civil War, the Ajuntament issued its own emergency paper currency after the breakdown of the normal monetary supply chain — the result of hoarding, requisitioning, and the practical collapse of small-denomination coin circulation across the Republican zone.
These hyper-local emissions, collectively catalogued under the Turró reference system, were typically printed in very small runs, often by local or provincial presses with minimal security features. Many survive only in tiny quantities, as they circulated briefly within a single village economy and were rendered worthless after the Republican defeat in 1939.