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1 Centavo Monção
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Monção |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAMARA MUNICIPAL DE MONÇÃO C.vo 1 C.vo PAGAVEL NA SUA TESOURARIA (Translation: Monção City Council / 1 Centavo / Payable at its Treasury) |
| Reverse description | Black letterpress print on cream paper with perforated edges. The design is composed of a decorative outer border with corner ornaments and a large blank central oval, likely intended as an underprint or counter-signature space. To the left and right of the oval, symmetrical cartouches framed with ornamental scrollwork each contain the numeral "1" above the word "CENTAVO". |
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Monção is a small municipality in the Minho region, and like dozens of Portuguese câmaras municipais, it issued its own emergency fractional paper during the severe coin shortage of the early 1920s. These local cédulas filled a genuine gap — small copper and bronze coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted, leaving shopkeepers and markets unable to make change. The Câmara Municipal stepped in as an issuer of last resort, with no formal banking infrastructure behind it.
MA#1403 is catalogued in Mário Amado's reference on Portuguese cédulas, the standard work for this material. Monção issues are not among the more commonly encountered municipal emissions from this period.