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1 Peseta Golmés; Pastisseria Casa Macari
| Issuer | Pastisseria Casa Macari (Golmés) |
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| Year | 1936-1939 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Plain white field with black letterpress text arranged in three lines at centre, stating the issuer name, locality, and denomination. A geometric border in black frames the perimeter of the note. A serial number appears in black at lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | Pastisseria CASA MACARI - Golmés reconeix al portador, la quantitat de UNA PESSETA N.º 91 (Translation: Bakery "Casa Macari" recognizes the bearer, the amount of One Peseta) |
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One of thousands of emergency fractional notes — vals, or vales — issued by Catalan municipalities, cooperatives, and private businesses during the Spanish Civil War, when the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of small coinage almost immediately after July 1936. The central government in Madrid was slow to respond, so local entities printed their own. A pastry shop issuing currency was not unusual; it was practical necessity.
Golmés is a small township in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida. These hyperlocal issues rarely circulated beyond the issuing establishment and its immediate neighborhood, which is partly why survival rates are erratic — some are genuinely rare, others surfaced in bulk from family archives decades later.