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1 Centavo Vila Real
| Issuer | Câmara Municipal de Vila Real |
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| Value | 1 Centavo (0.01 PTE) |
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| Obverse description | Plain salmon-pink paper note with all text printed in black letterpress on an unadorned ground. The issuing authority appears at the top in two lines reading "Camara Municipal de Vila Real", followed by the word "Deve" (owes), a series and number line reading "Serie X — N.º", and the denomination "1 Centavo" at the foot. The typeset layout is entirely text-based with no vignette or ornamental elements. |
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| Obverse lettering | Camara Municipal de Vila Real Deve Serie X — N.º 1 Centavo |
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Vila Real's câmara municipal issued small-denomination cédulas like this one during the severe coin shortage that gripped Portugal from roughly 1917 onward. Wartime metal demands had gutted bronze and copper from circulation, forcing hundreds of local municipalities to print their own emergency paper fractionals. The 1 centavo was among the smallest denominations attempted — functionally a substitute for the smallest coin in the system, and almost certainly spent and discarded rather than saved.
At under two square centimeters, these municipal cédulas suffered badly from casual handling. Intact survivors without tears or soiling are genuinely uncommon.