Catalog
1 Cent Fronteira
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal do Concelho de Fronteira |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note printed in red, with a rectangular border composed of a repeating rosette ornament motif enclosing the entire design. The issuer's name is set in two lines of serif type at centre, above the denomination in bold capital letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted cream reverse bearing a large oval official ink stamp at centre, applied by hand, reading 'FRONTEIRA' along the upper arc with additional text around the lower arc, serving as an authentication mark for this emergency local issue. |
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Fronteira is a small municipality in the Alentejo interior, and like dozens of similar councils across Portugal, it resorted to issuing its own cédulas during the acute coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Câmara Municipal had no printing infrastructure worth speaking of; these notes were typically produced by local printers on whatever stock was available, then authenticated with an official municipal stamp — the stamp being the only thing standing between the note and a worthless slip of paper.
The MA#965 reference places this within Gonçalves's catalogue of Portuguese local emergency issues, a category where condition survivorship is poor and many municipalities are represented by only a handful of known examples.