Catalog
1 Centavo Évora
| Issuer | Creche-Lactario de Évora |
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| Size | 88 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | Plain beige paper note printed in red with teal/blue numerals and text. A rectangular letterpress border with ornamental corner vignettes frames the central design, within which the institution name "Creche-Lactario" appears in large decorative script above the locality name "EVORA". The denomination "1 centavo" is set in a central guilloche cartouche in teal overprint. A serial number is printed in teal at the top centre, with series designation "Serie R" at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left as plain buff-coloured paper with no design elements, vignettes, or text, showing only minor show-through from the obverse impression and collector notations in pencil. |
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The Creche-Lactario de Évora was a charitable institution — a combined crèche and infant feeding station — operating in the Alentejo capital during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Portugal in the early twentieth century. Municipally tolerated emergency issues of this kind filled the gap left by the withdrawal of low-denomination coins, circulating purely on local trust within a tightly defined community.
MA#867 is a rare survival. Charitable and welfare institutions rarely produced notes in large quantities, and fewer still were preserved once the shortage passed.