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2 Pesetas Golmés
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Golmés (Municipality of Golmés) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 2 Pesetas (2 ESP) |
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| Obverse lettering | AJUNTAMENT DE GOLMÉS Val per DUES Ptes. Per acord de l`Ajuntament DE CURS OBLIGATORI PER TOT EL TERME MUNICIPAL (Translation: City Council of Golmés It`s worth Two Pesetas By agreement of the City Council Mandatory course for the entire Municipal Term) |
| Reverse description | Entirely unprinted reverse on light green paper, left blank in keeping with the simplified production method typical of Spanish Civil War municipal emergency currency. The cropped corner shape of the note is visible, and the plain surface bears no inscriptions, vignettes, or security devices. |
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Golmés is a small agricultural municipality in the Pla d'Urgell comarca of Lleida, with a wartime population of perhaps a few hundred. During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican zone suffered an acute shortage of fractional coinage — silver had vanished from circulation and the central authorities could not supply enough small change. The Catalan regional government formally authorized municipalities to issue their own emergency paper money in 1937, and hundreds of town councils did exactly that, printing notes locally in tiny quantities.
For a village this size, the entire issue likely ran to a few hundred pieces at most. Turró catalogues only the one denomination for Golmés, suggesting a deliberately minimal emission.