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1 Peseta Salomó
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Salomó (Municipality of Salomó) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | Ajuntament de Salomó 1 VAL per UNA pesseta al sol objecte de facilitar el canvi (Translation: City Council of Salomó Value for One Peseta For the sole purpose of facilitating change) |
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| Reverse lettering | SALOMÓ CONSELL MUNICIPAL |
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Salomó is a small municipality in the Camp de Tarragona with a population that barely exceeded a few hundred during the 1930s. That a village this size issued its own emergency currency is less surprising than it might seem — the collapse of small-denomination coinage across Republican Spain during 1936–37 forced hundreds of Catalan municipalities to print their own substitutes, a phenomenon coordinated loosely under the Generalitat but largely executed at the local level. Turró catalogued well over two thousand such issues, and Salomó's single peseta note is among the more obscure.
Imprenta Solé in Tarragona handled a number of these provincial emergency pieces, the official stamp serving as the primary anti-counterfeiting measure — a modest safeguard for a note circulating among perhaps a few dozen shops and neighbors.