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1 Peseta Tossa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tossa de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Printer | Imprenta Vilallonga, Cassà de la Selva, Spain |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed emergency voucher on light green paper, enclosed within a double-rule perimeter border in dark blue and green. The face is entirely typographic, with no pictorial vignettes, carrying the full authorizing text of the municipal council in dark blue ink arranged in a dense block composition. All legends appear in Catalan, referencing the municipal council agreement of 31 May 1937. |
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| Reverse lettering | VAL UNA PESSETA autoritzat dins aquest terme municipal. (Translation: One Peseta authorized voucher within this Municipal Term) |
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Tossa de Mar was one of hundreds of Catalan municipalities forced to print emergency fractional currency during the Civil War after the Republican government's coin supply collapsed in 1936–37. The Ajuntament issued these notes under the framework established by the Generalitat de Catalunya, which authorized local bodies to produce small-denomination paper to keep markets functioning. Vilallonga's press in Cassà de la Selva printed for numerous surrounding municipalities during this period, making it something of a regional clearinghouse for wartime scrip.
Turró catalogues this as #2584, one of only a handful of denominations recorded for Tossa de Mar.