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50 Céntimos Tossa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tossa de Mar (Municipality of Tossa de Mar) |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Currency | Peseta (1936-1939) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in violet and orange-red on a pale yellow ground, enclosed within a double-line rectangular border. To the left, a circular official stamp of the Alcaldia Constitucional de Tossa bears a castle vignette at its centre. To the right, the denomination and validity text are set in bold letterpress, with the words VAL and CINQUANTA CENTIMS printed in large orange-red type interleaved with the Catalan authorisation text in violet. The printer's imprint IMP. VILALLONGA - CASSÀ appears at the foot of the note. |
| Reverse lettering | CINQUANTA CENTIMS VAL autoritzat dins aquest Terme Municipal (Translation: Fifty Centimos Authorized voucher within this Municipal Term) IMP. VILALLONGA - CASSÀ |
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Tossa de Mar, a small coastal municipality in Girona province, issued this note under the Republican government's emergency authorization of June 1937, which allowed Catalan town councils to produce fractional currency to compensate for the near-total disappearance of small coinage from circulation. The hoarding of metal during the Civil War had left everyday commercial transactions essentially paralyzed at the retail level.
Imprenta Vilallonga in Cassà de la Selva printed for a number of Gironès and Selva comarca municipalities during this period. These small municipal emissions were typically printed in very limited runs and saw hard local use — survivors in clean condition are the exception.