20 Doumes Puy de Dôme

The doume is a local complementary currency launched in the Puy-de-Dôme département of the Auvergne region, administered by the Association la Doume. Like most French monnaies locales complémentaires that emerged in the 2010s, it operates on the Sol-Violette model — pegged one-to-one with the euro, redeemable only through participating local businesses, and designed explicitly to keep spending within the regional economy rather than leaking into national retail chains or online platforms.

Paper complementary currencies of this type are printed in deliberately limited runs and periodically replaced with new series, which means individual notes have a shorter effective lifespan than most banknote collectors expect. The 2015 issue predates the formal French legal framework for monnaies locales established under the July 2014 ESS law — one of the first national statutes anywhere to formally recognize and regulate complementary currency associations.