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2 centavos Coimbra
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Coimbra |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 73 × 48 mm |
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| Obverse description | Printed in red-brown on plain paper, the central vignette presents the municipal coat of arms of Coimbra within an oval cartouche, flanked by two allegorical female figures seated at either side against a hatched background. The denomination numeral '2' appears at lower left and lower right, with the legend 'CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE COIMBRA' across the top and '2 CENTAVOS' along the bottom, all within a ruled rectangular border. The date '1920' is inscribed below the central arms. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in red-brown, the central oval vignette contains a panoramic cityscape of Coimbra, its rooftops and towers rendered in fine line work, framed by scrolling foliate ornaments and two allegorical figures at the upper corners. A handwritten authorization signature in violet ink is superimposed across the vignette, and the series designation 'Série A' is typeset in black at the lower left. The word 'CENTAVOS' runs along the lower arc of the oval border. |
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Portuguese municipal chambers issued small-denomination cédulas during the cédula crisis of 1917–1921, when a chronic shortage of bronze coinage — caused largely by metal hoarding and wartime disruption — forced local governments across the country to print their own emergency paper fractionals. Coimbra was among dozens of municipalities that did so under official sanction, though the quality of paper stock and printing varied considerably from town to town.
The 2 centavos denomination is among the lowest face values in the entire Portuguese municipal cédula series, produced at a moment when even such trivial sums were genuinely scarce in daily transactions.