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1 Centavo Estremoz
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Estremoz |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on plain beige paper within a double-rule rectangular border. The left half bears the municipal coat of arms of Estremoz — a quartered shield with a crescent moon, a radiant sun, the Portuguese royal escutcheon, castles, an olive tree, and treasure chests at base, all flanked by olive branches tied with a ribbon below — while the right half carries the large denomination numeral '1' above the legend 'CENT.' in bold shadowed type, with a classical column vignette to the far right. A decorative ribbon banner along the top reads 'CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE ESTREMOZ'. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse shows the obverse design in faint show-through impression on the plain beige paper, with no intentional printed design, leaving the surface effectively unprinted. |
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Estremoz is one of several Portuguese municipalities that issued its own small-denomination cédulas during the acute coin shortage that gripped Portugal in the late 1910s. The Câmara Municipal — the local town council — had no banking infrastructure behind it, only civic authority and a pressing need for small change. These emergency municipal notes were tolerated rather than formally sanctioned by Lisbon, which is part of why documentary records for individual issues are sparse and survival rates are uneven.
The MA#856 reference places this within Gonçalves's catalog of Portuguese local issues, a series notoriously difficult to date precisely at the individual municipality level.