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1 Centavo Concelho de Certã
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal do Concelho da Certã |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse lettering | Câmara Municipal do Concelho da Certã CÉDULA PARA TROCOS Deliberação tomada em sessão de 1 de março de 1920 Centavo 1 Centavo Serie B N.º Certã, 28 de Abril de 1920. O presidente da comissão executiva, Abilio Marçal |
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| Signature(s) | Abilio Marçal |
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Certã is a small municipality in the Pinhal Interior Sul region of central Portugal. This note belongs to the vast wave of cédulas municipais issued across Portugal between roughly 1917 and 1922, when a severe shortage of small coin — partly caused by hoarding and partly by wartime metal demands — forced local councils to print their own fractional paper money. The Banco de Portugal and the national treasury were simply not supplying enough low-denomination coinage to keep local commerce moving.
Municipal cédulas from minor inland concelhos like Certã survive in far smaller numbers than those from larger urban centers, where print runs were correspondingly bigger. The single signature of Abílio Marçal is typical of smaller councils operating with minimal administrative overhead.