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1 Centavo Marinha Grande
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal da Marinha Grande |
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| Size | 98 × 67 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DA MARINHA GRANDE UM CENTAVO O PRESIDENTE DA COMISSÃO EXECUTIVA |
| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted save for a ghostly impression of the obverse text visible in show-through on the plain cream stock, with no independent design elements or lettering applied to this side. |
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Marinha Grande is a small industrial town in central Portugal, best known historically for its glass factories — and it was precisely the disruption of normal coin supply during and after World War I that forced dozens of Portuguese municipalities to print their own emergency fractional notes. The Câmara Municipal's 1 Centavo cédula belongs to this broad wave of local paper money that flooded Portugal between roughly 1917 and the early 1920s, when the Banco de Portugal simply could not keep low-denomination coinage in circulation.
The MA#1333d suffix indicates a distinct variety within the series, likely a color or paper variant rather than a separate issue date — the Marinha Grande municipal cédulas are known to exist in multiple states that collectors have catalogued granularly.