Catalog
1 Centavo Tomar
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Tomar |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE TOMAR Serie G 1 CENTAVO CENTAVO O escudeiro / O P.te da C.ª Ex.ª VALE Nº (Translation: Tomar Municipal Council / Series G / 1 Centavo / The Secretary / The President of the Executive Commission / Voucher No.) |
| Reverse description | Printed entirely in red on plain paper stock, the reverse is divided into two vignette panels set within a fine guilloche border. The larger left panel presents a view of a public building with arched arcades, likely a civic structure in Tomar, while the narrower right panel carries an architectural or sculptural detail, possibly a Manueline doorway or decorative stonework. The issuer inscription CAMARA MUNICIPAL / TOMAR appears in bold lettering at the upper portion of the border. |
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Câmara Municipal de Tomar issued small-denomination cédulas like this one during the acute coin shortage that gripped Portugal in the early 1920s. Municipal chambers across the country were authorized to produce emergency paper fractionals to keep local commerce moving when bronze and nickel coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply worn out of existence by wartime economic strain.
Tomar's issues are among the less documented of the Portuguese municipal cédulas, and MA#2195 turns up infrequently in trade.