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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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| Value | 50 Centimos (0.50 ESP) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in violet and dark pink on a light pink background, the obverse is framed by a decorative perimeter border. The face bears the full text of the municipal council's authorizing resolution in Catalan, laid out in letterpress across the note's surface. No pictorial vignette is present; the design relies entirely on typographic composition. |
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| 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.