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5 Centavos Vila Nova De Famalicão
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Vila Nova de Famalicão |
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| Printer | Litografia Nacional, Porto |
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| Obverse description | Red-printed emergency note with a central vignette of a winged allegorical female figure seated atop a lion, raising a sword aloft in a classical composition. To the upper left, a dark oval medallion bears the bold numeral '5'; at upper centre, the municipal monogram 'CMF' is set within a decorative wreath cartouche, flanked by laurel branches; at lower right, the Portuguese royal coat of arms is printed within a circular frame. A circular dry-seal stamp appears at upper right, and a black serial number is printed at lower centre below the text block. |
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| Protection type | Dry seal |
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One of thousands of municipal cédulas issued across Portugal during the severe coin shortage that followed the First World War. The Tesouro Nacional had effectively stopped producing small-denomination coinage by 1917–1918, leaving câmaras municipais and other local bodies to fill the gap with paper fractional currency — a stopgap that persisted well into the early 1920s in some regions.
Litografia Nacional in Porto supplied cédulas to numerous northern municipalities during this period, using dry-seal authentication rather than a watermarked substrate. The dry seal was applied by the issuing câmara, making each note technically valid only within its own municipality.