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1 Centavo Mourão
| Issuer | Município de Mourão |
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| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Plain cream paper note of typographic execution, with the denomination '1 Centavo' printed along all four outer margins in both upright and inverted orientations. A rectangular dotted border frames the central text panel, which carries the legend 'CEDULA MUNICIPAL' at the top, followed by series and serial number fields ('S.' and 'N.°'), the denomination 'UM Centavo' in bold letterpress type, and the issuing authority 'MUNICIPIO DE MOURÃO' with a space reserved for the treasurer's manuscript signature above a dotted line. |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Centavo CEDULA MUNICIPAL S. N.° UM Centavo MUNICIPIO DE MOURÃO O Tesoureiro, |
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Mourão is a small municipality in the Alentejo region of Portugal, and like hundreds of other Portuguese councils, it issued its own paper cédulas during the cédula crisis of 1917–1925, when a catastrophic shortage of small coinage — driven by wartime metal demands and hoarding — forced local authorities, businesses, and institutions to print emergency fractional currency. These municipal issues were legal under a 1917 decree that formally authorized local bodies to fill the gap left by the state.
The MA# catalog reference places this among the Almeida & Araújo corpus of Portuguese notgeld documentation. Survival rates for rural municipal cédulas are uneven at best — small towns printed in small quantities, and most circulated hard until they fell apart.