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1 Lixo

Issuer Freguesia de Campolide
Year
Type Pattern or trial banknote
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Obverse description Green-toned novelty note with an isometric cityscape underprint of Campolide parish, including an aqueduct vignette at left and urban buildings at right. Central white circular vignette bears an embossed seal and a colour illustration of a discarded cigarette butt. Denomination counters reading '1 L$' appear in dark roundels at each corner, with a yellow ribbon scroll at base.
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Reverse lettering FREGUESIA DE CAMPOLIDE
1 L$
- UM LIXO -
(Translation: Campolide Parish
1 L$
- One Trash -)
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Campolide was a civil parish (freguesia) on the western edge of Lisbon, absorbed into the city proper but retaining its own administrative identity well into the twentieth century. During Portugal's acute small-change shortage of the late 1910s, hundreds of local authorities — municipalities, parishes, even individual merchants — issued their own cédulas or emergency scrip to keep commerce moving. This note is one of those hyper-local emissions, authorized at the parish rather than municipal level, which is the more unusual circumstance.

The unit "lixo" is not a recognized monetary denomination — this may reflect a transcription error, a colloquial or ironic local usage, or damaged source data.

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