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1 Centavo Santo Tirso
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Santo Tirso |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE SANTO TIRSO 1 (Translation: Santo Tirso City Council) |
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| Protection type | Embossed seal |
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Santo Tirso is a municipality in northern Portugal, and this centavo note is a product of the severe currency shortage that gripped the country after 1917. The central government's inability to supply enough low-denomination coinage forced hundreds of municipal chambers — câmaras municipais — to issue their own emergency paper, known as cédulas. These were legally authorized under emergency legislation but remained strictly local: a Santo Tirso note would not be accepted in Braga, let alone Lisbon.
The embossed seal was the primary anti-counterfeiting measure, applied by the câmara's own press. At one centavo, this is among the lowest denominations in the entire Portuguese municipal cédula series.