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1 Centavo Mocambique
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal do Concelho de Moçambique |
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| Year | 1917-1920 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note printed in brown and ochre tones, with an oval vignette at left enclosing the municipal coat of arms of Moçambique — a crowned shield with a double-headed eagle — surrounded by the circular legend of the issuing authority. To the right, a cartouche bears the title 'MERCADOS' at top, followed by 'CEDULA DE TROCOS' and the large bold numeral denomination '$01' within a decorative frame, with 'UM CENTAVO' below. A handwritten signature of 'O Presidente' appears at lower right beneath the printed title. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed on plain unadorned paper in a tan-brown tone, largely undecorated, with a single circular violet ink stamp applied off-centre to the right, serving as an authenticating validation mark of the issuing municipal authority. |
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The Câmara Municipal do Concelho de Moçambique — a municipal council on Mozambique Island, a sliver of land barely three kilometers long off the northern coast — issued this note out of necessity, not policy ambition. Portuguese East Africa was chronically short of small change throughout the First World War, and local authorities across the colony improvised emergency cédulas rather than wait for Lisbon to solve the problem.
Mozambique Island had been the colonial capital until 1898, when administration shifted south to Lourenço Marques. By 1917 it was a backwater issuing its own fractional paper, authenticated by nothing more than an ink stamp.