Catalog
1 Centavo Fronteira
| Issuer | Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Fronteira |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream reverse showing a light bleed-through of the obverse border and text. A single handwritten manuscript signature is applied in ink across the centre of the note, serving as the sole authenticating element on this side. |
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| Protection description | A handwritten signature applied in ink on the reverse as an authentication measure. |
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Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Fronteira was one of dozens of Portuguese charitable brotherhoods that issued small-denomination cédulas during the acute coinage shortage of the early twentieth century. These local necessity notes filled a gap that the Banco de Portugal had no interest in filling — denominations this small were simply not worth printing at a national level. Fronteira is a minor municipality in the Alentejo interior, which kept circulation of these notes tightly local and redemption uncertain.
The single manuscript signature as the only security feature is telling: authentication was entirely personal, not institutional.