1 Peseta Golmés; Pastisseria Casa Macari

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.