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1 Centavo Viseu
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Vizeu |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress note with a decorative fan-motif border bearing the repeated monogram C.M.V. at each side. At the top centre, the Portuguese royal arms appear within a circular vignette, below which a ribbon cartouche carries the issuer's name. To the left, the denomination numeral '1' is set within a guilloche rosette above the word 'CENTAVO', while the right side bears the series designation, the deliberation date of 16 November 1921, and a manuscript signature of the President of the Executive Commission, with a printed serial number at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | C.M.V. VALE 1 CENTAVO C.M.V. |
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Câmara Municipal de Vizeu issued this cédula during the severe coin shortage that plagued Portugal in the early 1920s, a period when municipalities, commerce houses, and even private firms printed their own emergency fractional notes to fill the gap left by hoarded bronze and copper. The Banco de Portugal had long struggled to keep low-denomination coinage in circulation — wartime metal demands had seen coins disappear into savings and export, and the problem persisted well after the Armistice.
Municipal cédulas of this period were authorized under successive Portuguese government decrees but remained strictly local in acceptance — a Vizeu note was worthless in Coimbra. Most were redeemed and destroyed once coin supply normalized, making intact survivors genuinely uncommon.