50 Céntimos Tossa

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.