Catalog
50 Céntimos Tossa
| Issuer | Ajuntament de Tossa (Municipality of 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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| Reverse description | Light salmon-pink background divided into two panels by a vertical rule, framed by a double-line orange-red and dark blue border. The left panel carries the denomination in large teal letterpress capitals — CINQUANTA CENTIMS — interspersed with the authorisation legend in smaller dark blue type; the right panel bears a violet circular official stamp of the Ajuntament de Tossa. The printer's imprint IMP VILALLONGA CASSA appears in small type along the lower margin. |
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| Protection description | Violet circular municipal stamp of the Ajuntament de Tossa applied to the right panel of the reverse |
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One of thousands of locally issued emergency notes — "moneda local" or "bitllets locals" — that proliferated across Republican-held Catalonia after July 1936, when the banking system collapsed and small coin essentially vanished from circulation. The Generalitat eventually tried to regulate the chaos, but municipalities had already gone ahead independently, and many, like Tossa de Mar, contracted whatever printer was geographically accessible. Imprenta Vilallonga in Cassà de la Selva served several nearby towns during this period.
Turró catalogued over 2,500 reference numbers for Catalan civil war local issues. The fact that this one has its own entry is unremarkable — the number itself tells you how saturated the field is.