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10 Centavos Fronteira
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Fronteira |
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| Year | 1917-1925 |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE FRONTEIRA O PRESIDENTE DA COMISSÃO EXECUTIVA 10 CENTU |
| Reverse description | Printed in violet on cream paper, the reverse presents the municipal coat of arms of Fronteira at centre, flanked by two symmetrical circular vignettes each containing a bull's head motif set against a wave-pattern guilloche background. The inscription 'CAMARA MUNICIPAL' arches across the top with 'DE' below it, and 'FRONTEIRA' runs along the lower margin in bold letterpress type. Denomination counters reading '10' and 'CENTU' occupy each of the four corners. The printer's imprint 'Empresa Alentejana de Publicidade – Évora' appears vertically along the right margin. |
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Fronteira is a small agricultural municipality in the Alentejo interior, and this cédula was issued under the emergency small-change provisions that proliferated across Portuguese municipalities after 1917, when wartime metal shortages drained copper and nickel coins from circulation almost entirely. The Câmara Municipal had no banking infrastructure to fall back on — local government bodies became de facto monetary authorities by necessity.
The printer, Empresa Alentejana de Publicidade, was a regional press operation based in Évora, responsible for a number of Alentejo municipal cédulas during this period. Not a security printer by trade, which shows in the relatively modest anti-counterfeiting provisions typical of these provincial commissions.