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!
Collection - Coins and Notes - Diário de Notícias # 79 5 Centavos Notgeld
| Issuer | Banco do Minho, Braga |
|---|---|
| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Paper |
| 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 | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Uniform red guilloche design centered on a horizontal oval cartouche with a pale reserve panel carrying the denomination inscription. Four corner medallions each bear the interlaced 'BM' monogram of Banco do Minho within circular frames. A fine lace-pattern border runs the full perimeter, with a small floral ornament at top center above the central oval. |
| Reverse lettering | VALE 5 CTVs |
| 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 |
Banco do Minho's 1919 emergency small change issues belong to a short-lived Portuguese notgeld moment triggered by acute coin shortages in the final years of the First Republic. Silver had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, and low-denomination bronze coinage was chronically undersupplied by the Casa da Moeda. Regional banks and commercial houses across northern Portugal stepped in with cédulas — locally authorized paper substitutes — to keep retail trade moving.
The Diário de Notícias collection numbering suggests this note was later issued as part of a promotional series bundled with the Lisbon newspaper, which reproduced historic Portuguese emergency currency for collectors in the 1970s–80s. That provenance matters: catalog values and condition expectations differ sharply between original 1919 circulation pieces and the later facsimile or collector editions.