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1 Centavo Penafiel
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Penafiel |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print on cream paper with an ornate guilloche border framing the entire note. A central vignette presents a detailed architectural elevation of the Penafiel municipal hall, with the coat of arms of Penafiel at upper left and the Portuguese republic seal at upper right. The denomination appears in an oval cartouche at the lower centre, flanked by the printed signature lines of the President and Treasurer. |
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| Reverse description | Yellow-gold letterpress print with a light blue-grey underprint showing a ghosted impression of the municipal hall vignette. An ornate guilloche border frames the note, with a large central oval cartouche. The numeral '1' appears in a circular medallion to the left and the abbreviated denomination to the right. |
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Penafiel is a small municipality in northern Portugal, and like dozens of other local authorities during the acute coin shortages of the First World War and its aftermath, the Câmara Municipal stepped in to fill the void left by the disappearance of small bronze from circulation. These municipal emergency notes — cédulas — proliferated across Portugal from roughly 1917 onward, issued without any central authorization and redeemable, in theory, only within the issuing municipality.
The MA catalog reference places this firmly within the Mário Abílio classification of Portuguese local issues. Survival rates vary wildly — many were redeemed and destroyed, others simply worn to illegibility.