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10 Centavos Sines
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Sines |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SERIE B 1922 CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE SINES 10 CENTAVOS O PRES.TE DA COMISSÃO EXECUTIVA 10CTV. |
| Reverse description | Printed in brown on cream paper, the reverse carries a large central vignette of a panoramic coastal view of Sines, showing the town's waterfront, cliffs, and shoreline rendered in a photographic engraving style. A small oval portrait of the explorer Vasco da Gama, bearded and wearing a period cap, is set into the upper left corner. The denomination appears in the lower left, and a ribbon cartouche along the bottom carries the town's proud inscription. |
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Sines is a small coastal municipality in the Alentejo — best known today as the birthplace of Vasco da Gama, but in the early 1920s it was a town struggling with the same acute coin shortage that plagued municipal administrations across Portugal after the First World War. The Câmara Municipal responded the way hundreds of Portuguese councils did: by issuing cédulas, low-denomination emergency paper scrip backed by nothing more than local authority and immediate necessity.
These municipal issues were technically illegal under Portuguese banking law but were tolerated by Lisbon out of sheer practical necessity. Most were recalled and destroyed within a few years, which accounts for their relative scarcity in collections today.