Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Colecção - Moedas e Notas - Diário de Notícias #26 20 Centavos
| Issuer | Casa da Moeda (Ministério das Finanças) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Replica banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | REPÚBLICA PORTUGUESA MINISTÉRIO DAS FINANÇAS CASA DA MOEDA Lei Nº 1387 de 4 de Agosto de 1922 DECRETO Nº 10387 de 11 de Abril de 1925 VINTE CENTAVOS 20 O Secretário Geral do Ministério Pela Administração da Casa da Moeda |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of a neoclassical building façade framed within an arched guilloche border, flanked by ornate pillar cartouches bearing the numeral 20 on each side. Initials R and P appear at upper left and right respectively. Denomination panel at bottom centre in bold letterpress. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Portugal's small-denomination cédulas of the early 1920s exist because the country had nearly run out of coin. A severe shortage of bronze and nickel coinage — aggravated by wartime metal requisitions and postwar hoarding — forced the Ministério das Finanças to authorize paper replacements for fractional values that no one seriously expected paper to cover. The 20 Centavos was among the most heavily circulated of these, passed hand to hand in daily retail transactions until the notes simply wore out.
Waterlow & Sons produced the series in London. Surviving examples in any condition above heavily worn are genuinely uncommon.