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2 Pesetas Flix
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de Flix |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Size | 99 × 61 mm |
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| Obverse description | The upper left corner bears the Coat of Arms of Catalonia, while the central vignette presents an industrial scene with a factory and smoking chimneys representing the local chemical industry, alongside a view of the historic Castle of Flix to the right. A watchtower occupies the lower right corner, with the denomination and issuing authority rendered in letterpress across the face. |
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| Reverse lettering | L`import d`aquest paper moneda, serà solament canjeable a la Caixa d`aquest Consell Municipal, prèvia ordenació de la seva recollida (Translation: The amount of this paper money will only be exchangeable at the Caixa of this Municipal Council, after ordering its collection.) |
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Flix is a small industrial town on the Ebro in Tarragona province, and its wartime paper money was issued under the Republican municipal council system that proliferated across Catalonia after July 1936. With the collapse of normal coin circulation — silver and copper hoarded or melted almost immediately after the coup — hundreds of Catalan municipalities printed their own emergency fractional currency. Flix's issues are among the lesser-documented of these, and Turró remains the primary reference for cataloguing them.
Paper deterioration is a known problem with many Catalan municipal notes from this period, as wartime stock was often poor quality to begin with.