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20 Centavos
| Issuer | Companhia de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | PRATA BANCO DA BEIRA PAGARA A VISTA AO PORTADOR VINTE CENTAVOS MOEDA CORRENTE BEIRA 15 de Setembro de 1919 O GERENTE O ADMINISTRADOR |
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| Reverse lettering | VINTE CENTAVOS MOEDA CORRENTE |
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The Companhia de Moçambique was a chartered company granted administrative and economic control over the territories of Manica and Sofala from 1891 — a colonial concession arrangement that gave it the authority to issue its own currency entirely separate from the Portuguese colonial administration in Lourenço Marques. This note is a product of that unusual quasi-governmental status.
Bradbury Wilkinson printed the series in London, a natural choice given the firm's long relationship with colonial concession issuers across Africa. The 1919 date places this issue in the post-war period when small-denomination paper was filling a chronic coin shortage across Portuguese Africa.