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1 Centavo Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 76 × 53 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red and dark blue by letterpress on plain paper, the obverse presents a geometric diamond-pattern guilloche underprint forming the central field, enclosed within a decorative red border of repeating circular motifs. Large dark-blue numeral '1' appears at each lateral corner, with the series designation 'Serie A' in red at the top centre and the main legend 'VALE 1 CENTAVO' in bold dark-blue letterpress across the central field. The authorising signature name 'Porfírio Machado' is printed in red below the denomination, with the printer's imprint along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red and blue by letterpress, the reverse is covered by a dense all-over underprint of repeating blue paisley or teardrop motifs enclosed within a fine blue ruled border. A plain white central cartouche contains the large red numeral '1'. The issuing authority's name is printed in red letterpress in two lines above and below the central cartouche. |
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Figueira de Castelo Rodrigo is a small municipality in the Beira Alta region, near the Spanish border, and like hundreds of Portuguese câmaras municipais during the currency shortage years of 1917–1921, it resorted to issuing its own cédulas — emergency fractional notes to fill the void left by hoarded bronze and silver coinage. The Tipografia da Empresa Veritas in Guarda was a regional commercial printer with no specialist banknote capability; these were essentially typeset tickets, not engraved notes.
The MA#916 reference places this within the Marques de Azevedo catalogue of Portuguese local emergency issues, a series remarkable more for its geographic breadth than any individual rarity.