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1 Centavo Castro Marim
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Castro Marim |
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| Currency | Escudo (1911-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress print in red-brown ink on beige paper. A decorative rectangular border of ornamental scrollwork frames the text field, with a small heraldic vignette centered between the issuer name lines. All inscriptions are set in bold serif type within the border. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing the blind embossed offset of the obverse letterpress design through the thin beige paper, with the obverse text and border visible in mirror relief. A handwritten letter 'E' appears in the upper right corner. |
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Castro Marim is a small Algarve municipality at Portugal's southeastern tip, and like dozens of Portuguese câmaras municipais, it resorted to issuing its own low-denomination paper cédulas during the severe coin shortage that gripped the country from roughly 1917 onward. The national government's inability to maintain adequate bronze and cupro-nickel coinage in circulation forced local authorities — town councils, commercial associations, even individual merchants — to fill the gap themselves. These municipal emissions had no formal backing beyond local trust and were typically redeemed, then destroyed, once coinage returned.
Castro Marim's issues are among the less frequently encountered Algarve municipal notes, reflecting both the town's small population and the likely low print run.