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5 centavos Vila Real de Santo António
| Uitgever | Câmara Municipal de Vila Real de Santo António |
|---|---|
| Jaar | 1922 |
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| Samenstelling | Paper |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE VILA RIAL DE Stº ANTONIO VALE 5 Centavos (Translation: Town Hall of Vila Real de Santo António Worth 5 Centavos) |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Central vignette of the principal square of Vila Real de Santo António, rendered in the traditional calçada portuguesa pavement style, with the Municipal Town Hall visible in the composition. The authorisation text is printed in letterpress below the design. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Vila Real de Santo António is one of the few Portuguese towns planned and built in a single campaign — commissioned by Pombal and completed in 1776 in under six months — but that has nothing to do with why this note exists. The cédulas municipais issued across Portugal and its territories in the early 1920s were a direct response to a chronic shortage of small coinage, itself a consequence of wartime metal hoarding and post-WWI monetary disruption. Municipal chambers were legally permitted to fill the gap with locally issued fractional paper.
These Algarve border-town emissions are among the more obscure in the cédula series. Small print runs, heavy local use, and little reason for anyone to preserve them.