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1 Centavo Vagos
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Vagos |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Printed in green on plain paper, the note bears a rectangular border with guilloche-style ornamental banding along the top and bottom margins. The Portuguese Coat of Arms appears as a small central vignette flanked by two symmetrical denomination panels, each inscribed 'VALE / 1 / CENT.' within rounded cartouches. The issuer's title runs across the top in bold letterpress type, with the redemption clause at the foot. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green, the reverse carries a photographic-style halftone vignette occupying nearly the full face, showing a local church with its tower visible to the right and surrounding architectural and landscape elements. The image is enclosed within a simple ruled border on plain paper stock, with no additional lettering. |
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Vagos is a small municipality in the Aveiro district of central Portugal, and like dozens of similarly minor councils, it issued its own emergency cédulas during the acute coin shortage that gripped Portugal from roughly 1917 onward. The national government's failure to maintain adequate fractional coinage in circulation forced municipal chambers across the country to print local paper substitutes — legally tolerated but never formally authorized at the national level.
The Mafra catalogue reference places this among the rarer municipal issues. Small-council cédulas from interior and coastal Beira Litoral towns were printed in short runs and redeemed quickly, leaving little behind.