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1 Centavo Vila Nova Da Cerveira
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova da Cerveira |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Camara Municipal de Vila Nova da Cerveira 1 Centavo (Translation: Vila Nova de Cerveira City Council 1 cent) |
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| Reverse lettering | VILA NOVA DA CERVEIRA 1 Centvo VISTA DA ENTRADA DO CASTELO (Translation: Vila Nova Da Cerveira 1 Centavo View Of The Castle Entrance) |
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Vila Nova de Cerveira is a small municipality on the Minho River bordering Spain, and its câmara issued cédulas like this one during the severe coin shortage that gripped Portugal in the early 1920s. Municipal and parish authorities across the country resorted to locally printed paper fractional notes when bronze and cupro-nickel coinage effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, exported, or simply melted. The Banco de Portugal had neither the capacity nor the political will to supply small change to every rural corner of the country, so local authorities filled the gap themselves.
MA#2402 places this among the documented but genuinely scarce northern Portuguese municipals — few were printed, fewer survived.