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50 Céntimos Flix
| Issuer | Consell Municipal de la Vila de Flix |
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| Year | 1937 |
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| Reference(s) | Turró#1019 |
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| Obverse lettering | 50 cts CONSELL MUNICIPAL DE LA VILA DE FLIX VAL 50 CTS Flix 19 Juliol 1937 (Translation: 50 Centimos Municipal Council of the town of Flix Voucher 50 Centimos Flix, July 19, 1937) |
| Reverse description | The reverse carries two agricultural vignettes representing the principal products of the Flix municipal territory: a vineyard scene with farmers engaged in sulphating, and an olive grove shown during harvest. The composition reflects the rural economy of the region and frames the legal tender and redemption inscriptions in Catalan. |
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Flix is a small industrial town on the Ebro river in Tarragona province, home to an electrochemical plant that made it strategically significant during the Civil War. Like hundreds of Catalan municipalities in 1937, the Consell Municipal issued its own fractional emergency currency after the Republican government's coinage effectively disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply unavailable in the interior.
Turró catalogues these local Catalan emissions extensively; #1019 places this note within a well-documented but genuinely diverse series of municipal scrip, each town printing to its own means. Flix's emission was modest in scope, and surviving examples tend to show honest circulation wear consistent with everyday small-transaction use during wartime.