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1 Centavo Monforte
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Monforte |
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| Year | 1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a bold brown letterpress vignette of the municipal coat of arms of Monforte, rendered in a woodcut style within a rounded rectangular frame, showing three castle towers each surmounted by a flag bearing a cross. The toponym 'MONFORTE' is inscribed in large Gothic lettering along the right margin, outside the frame. |
| Reverse lettering | MONFORTE |
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Monforte is a small municipality in the Alto Alentejo, and its câmara issued this cédula during Portugal's chronic small-change shortage of the early 1920s — a period when hundreds of municipalities, commercial houses, and even individual merchants printed their own fractional notes to fill the gap left by the disappearance of low-denomination coins from circulation. The Banco de Portugal could not keep pace with demand, and local authorities were tacitly permitted to paper over the problem themselves.
MA#1428 is among the more obscure municipal emissions from this period, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely difficult to locate — small-town cédulas were used hard and rarely saved.