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| Emittent | Hospital de S. José, Arcos de Valdevez |
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| Jahr | 1917-1922 |
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| Im Umlauf bis | 1922 |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Central allegorical vignette in red letterpress showing a seated woman in classical robes attended by two young children in an outdoor garden setting, evoking themes of charity and care. The denomination '50 CENTAVOS' is printed in bold numerals within a circular frame at the upper right. A moral exhortation appears in a panel at the foot of the central frame, and the entire composition is enclosed within the same repetitive rosette guilloche border found on the obverse. |
| Rückseitenlegende | VALE 50 CENTAVOS SE ÉS AMIGO DO BEM INUTILISA ESTA CÉDULA (Translation: VALUE 50 CENTAVOS IF YOU ARE A FRIEND OF GOOD, MAKE THIS NOTE USELESS) |
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| Anmerkungen |
Portuguese hospital cédulas occupy a genuinely strange corner of notaphily. During the acute coin shortage that gripped Portugal from roughly 1916 onward, hundreds of institutions — municipalities, charities, hospitals, industrial firms — were legally permitted to issue their own low-denomination paper scrip. Hospital de S. José in Arcos de Valdevez, a small town in the Minho, was among them. These notes circulated locally as functional small change, not as charity tokens or commemoratives.
The cédula law of 1918 briefly regularized what had been chaotic improvisation, but many of these issues predated proper authorization and were retroactively tolerated rather than approved. Arcos de Valdevez examples are scarce today simply because provincial hospital scrip was rarely saved — it was spent until worn out, then discarded.