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5 Doumes Puy de Dôme
| Issuer | Association pour le Développement des Monnaies Locales 63 (ADML63) |
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| Year | 2015 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Reverse description | Full-bleed photographic underprint of a clover bed overlaid with a scattered composition of coloured circles in white, grey, gold, magenta, and orange, varying in size to suggest a currency-bubble motif. A stylised volcano logo with the "la doume" inscription and the ADML63.org web address appear at lower left, while the denomination "5d" in yellow is placed at lower right; a yellow exchange-rate legend occupies the upper right circle. |
| Reverse lettering | Une doume équivaut à un euro la doume ADML63.org 5d |
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The Doume is one of several dozen local complementary currencies that emerged in France following the 2014 ESS Law (Économie Sociale et Solidaire), which gave formal legal recognition to monnaies locales for the first time. ADML63's version is named after the Puy de Dôme volcano and denominated in units pegged one-to-one with the euro, redeemable only through participating merchants in the Clermont-Ferrand area. The peg-and-redeem model was deliberately designed to keep capital circulating locally rather than leaking into national retail chains.
Paper complementary currencies at this scale are typically printed in short runs by regional printers, with security features well below those of central bank issue — which makes condition far more variable than with conventional notes.