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1 Centavo Almada
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Almada |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | 1921 CAMARA MUNICIPAL ALMADA Série A 1 CENTAVO O Presidente da Comissão Executiva (Translation: City Council of Almada Series A 1 Cent The President of Executive Committee) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on beige paper, essentially a mirror impression of the obverse design showing through the thin stock, with the serial number hand-stamped in black at the lower center and a manuscript cancellation signature applied diagonally across the face. |
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Portuguese municipal chambers issued their own small-denomination paper during the acute coin shortage that gripped the country in the late 1910s and early 1920s. The central government's inability to keep fractional coinage in circulation — driven by wartime metal hoarding and post-war monetary disorder — pushed hundreds of local authorities to print their own cédulas, these small emergency notes functioning as change substitutes rather than formal currency. Almada's issue is among the smaller municipal emitters from the Lisbon district.
Cédulas of this period are frequently found with handling wear concentrated at the corners, as they passed through daily retail transactions for which no coin alternative existed.