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1 Centavo Ferreira Do Zêzere
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Ferreira do Zêzere |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE FERREIRA DO ZEZERE Republica Portuguêsa VALE 1 CENT. PAGAVEL NA SUA TESOURARIA (Translation: Ferreira do Zezere City Council / Portuguese Republic / Worth 1 Centavo / Payable in its Treasury) |
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| Protection type | Handstamp, Manuscript signature |
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Ferreira do Zêzere is a small inland municipality in the Ribatejo district, and like dozens of Portuguese câmaras municipais during the severe coinage shortage of the First Republic period, it resorted to issuing its own emergency cédulas to keep local commerce moving. These municipal paper fractionals were a purely pragmatic response — the central government could not supply enough small change, so local authorities filled the gap themselves.
Authentication here rested entirely on a handstamp and a manuscript signature, which means forgery risk was real and verification depended on local knowledge of whose hand and whose stamp were legitimate.