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2 Centavos Figueira Da Foz
| Issuer | Associação Comercial e Industrial de Figueira da Foz |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in dark rose-pink on plain paper, the obverse carries to the left a heraldic shield vignette enclosing a classical allegorical head within a gear-wheel border, surmounted by a caduceus with wings. A scroll banner at the top bears the issuer's name, with the denomination numeral '2' in large letterpress type at centre and a blank circular seal space to the right. Two printed signature cartouches at the lower centre, labelled 'O Presidente' and 'O Tesoureiro,' bear manuscript signatures, and the printer's imprint runs along the bottom margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, showing only the plain paper stock with faint show-through of the obverse design visible through the thin paper. |
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Figueira da Foz's commercial association issued these low-denomination cédulas during the acute coinage shortage that plagued Portugal after 1914, when hoarding and metal scarcity drove hundreds of local chambers, municipalities, and private associations to print their own fractional emergency money. The Associação Comercial e Industrial was among the more obscure issuers in the Coimbra district — small enough that Tipografia Peninsular, a local press, handled production entirely within the town itself.
At 2 centavos, this barely covered a tram fare. Redemption was theoretically guaranteed by the issuing body, but many such associations dissolved or simply stopped honoring their paper once the national coinage situation normalized in the early 1920s.