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5 Centavos Figueira da Foz
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal da Figueira da Foz |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DA FIGUEIRA DA FOZ 5 CENTAVOS 1921 SERIE A Nº O PRESIDENTE DA COMISSÃO EXECUTIVA Santos (Translation: Figueira da Foz City Council / 5 Cents / 1921 / Series A / No. / The President of the Executive Commission / Santos) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress on beige paper with a yellow-ochre ruled border underprint. The central vignette, set within an ornate oval frame with scrollwork and acanthus-leaf ornaments, presents a full-rigged sailing ship under sail on open water with smaller vessels in the distance, flanked at left by a tall palm-frond spray. To the right stands a tall decorative Manueline-style pillar topped with a crowned cartouche, beside which a ribbon scroll carries the legend 'CENTAVOS' and a bold circled numeral '5' below. |
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Figueira da Foz was one of dozens of Portuguese municipal chambers that resorted to issuing their own paper cédulas during the acute coin shortage that followed World War One. The Banco de Portugal's fractional coinage had largely disappeared from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply insufficient — and municipalities were legally empowered to fill the gap on a temporary basis. Most of these local issues were printed cheaply and circulated hard within their own councils.
The designer credit "Santos" appears on a number of Portuguese cédula series from this period, though attributing a precise first name or firm with confidence is difficult given how sparse the printing records are for municipal issues of this type.