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2 Centavos - Fundão
| Issuer | Municipality of Fundão (District of Castelo Branco) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Size | 85 × 55 mm |
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| Obverse description | The left portion of the note carries a vignette of the Fundão Town Hall building, while the centre bears the principal inscription in letterpress. To the right, the municipal coat of arms of Fundão is printed within a rectangular border frame. The overall design is executed in a single colour with plain typographic composition typical of Portuguese municipal emergency issues. |
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| Obverse lettering | Camara Municipal do Fundão DOIS CENTAVOS Fundão, 1 d'Agosto de 1923 SERIE D (Translation: Fundão City Council TWO CENTAVOS Fundão, 1st August 1923 SERIES D) |
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Portuguese municipal cédulas like this one were authorized under a 1918 decree that permitted local councils to issue small-denomination paper as a stopgap against the chronic shortage of bronze coinage following the First World War. Fundão, a modest agricultural town in the Beira Baixa interior, was among dozens of municipalities that took up that authority. Most of these local issues were redeemed and destroyed within a few years once coin supply normalized, which is why surviving examples from smaller municipalities are proportionally harder to find than their urban counterparts.