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5 Centavos Cuba
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Cuba |
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| Year | 1919 |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is framed by a decorative floral and fan-motif guilloche border with the repeated initials C.M.C. at the corners and along the margins. A central scroll ribbon bears the issuer's name, above which sits a circular vignette with the Portuguese royal arms. To the left, a large numeral '5' is set within an ornate rosette underprint inscribed VALE / CENTAVOS, with the denomination rendered in letterpress. The authority text and date of the municipal resolution appear to the right, accompanied by a manuscript signature of the President of the Executive Commission. |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE CUBA DELIBERAÇÃO MUNICIPAL DE 31 DE DEZEMBRO DE 1919 O PRESIDENTE DA COMISSÃO EXECUTIVA VALE 5 CENTAVOS |
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Câmara Municipal de Cuba — the municipality in Portugal's Alentejo region, not the Caribbean island — issued these emergency fractional notes during the acute coin shortage that paralyzed small commerce across Portugal in the years immediately following World War One. The federal government's failure to maintain adequate bronze coinage in circulation forced hundreds of municipal chambers and private firms to print their own low-denomination paper substitutes, a phenomenon that generated an enormous variety of local issues between roughly 1917 and 1922.
The Alentejo issues are among the more obscure of this cédula period, produced in small quantities for purely local use and rarely traveling far from the issuing town.