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1 Centavo Évora
| Issuer | Creche-Lactario de Évora |
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| Reference(s) | MA#867 |
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| Obverse lettering | Nº 03745 Creche-Lactario EVORA 1 centavo Serie R |
| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, left as plain buff-coloured paper with no design elements, vignettes, or text, showing only minor show-through from the obverse impression and collector notations in pencil. |
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The Creche-Lactario de Évora was a charitable institution — a combined crèche and infant feeding station — operating in the Alentejo capital during the acute small-change shortage that plagued Portugal in the early twentieth century. Municipally tolerated emergency issues of this kind filled the gap left by the withdrawal of low-denomination coins, circulating purely on local trust within a tightly defined community.
MA#867 is a rare survival. Charitable and welfare institutions rarely produced notes in large quantities, and fewer still were preserved once the shortage passed.