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1 Centavo Sines
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Sines |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress note with a continuous pearl-and-circle border. A large central vignette presents a panoramic coastal view of the town of Sines with the sea in the foreground and buildings along the cliff. A circular portrait medallion of Vasco da Gama, bearded and wearing a period cap, is inset at upper left. The denomination '1 CTY.' appears at lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | SINES. TERRA NATAL DE D. VASCO DA GAMA 1 CTY. (Translation: Sines. Birthplace of Dom Vasco da Gama / 1 Centavo) |
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Sines issued its own emergency paper cédulas during the early 1920s because Portugal's chronic postwar coin shortage left municipalities with no practical alternative. The Câmara Municipal de Sines — a small coastal council in the Alentejo — was one of dozens of local authorities authorized under emergency legislation to print low-denomination notes to substitute for missing bronze and nickel coinage in daily transactions.
The MA#2140 reference places this within the Mântua catalog of Portuguese local emergency currency, a collecting category where survival rates vary dramatically by municipality. Sines examples are not commonly encountered.