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1 Peseta Tossa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tossa de Mar |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Value | 1 Peseta (1 ESP) |
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| Reverse description | Brown and blue letterpress text on a cream dotted underprint background, with a double-line rectangular border framing the design. The denomination "UNA PESSETA" is set in large bold blue type interspersed with smaller brown text, and an oval municipal stamp impression of the Ajuntament de Tossa appears to the right. The printer's imprint "IMP. VILALLONGA - CASSA" appears at the lower centre margin. |
| Reverse lettering | UNA PESSETA VAL autoritzat dins aquest Terme Municipal IMP. VILALLONGA - CASSA (Translation: One Peseta Authorized voucher within this Municipal Term) |
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One of hundreds of small-denomination emergency notes — known as moneda local or paper moneda — issued by Catalan municipalities during the Spanish Civil War after the Republican government effectively lost control of coin circulation in 1936. The Generalitat de Catalunya eventually tried to regulate the flood of local issues, but many towns, Tossa de Mar included, had already been printing independently for months.
Vilallonga's press in Cassà de la Selva handled several of these municipal commissions in the Girona region. The Turró catalogue remains the essential reference for identifying legitimate issues from the considerable number of later tourist reproductions that entered the collector market from the 1960s onward.