Catalog
1 Lira
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia |
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| Year | 1869-1873 |
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| Value | 1 Lira (1 ITL) |
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| Reverse lettering | UNA ITALIA CAVOUR - COLOMBO MANIN - DANTE (Translation: ONE ITALY CAVOUR - COLOMBO MANIN - DANTE) |
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| Protection description | Not present. |
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The Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia was itself a provisional institution — Italy had unified only in 1861, and the country still lacked a single central bank, with several regional banks of issue operating simultaneously throughout this period. This 1 Lira note belongs to the fractional currency that effectively replaced small silver coinage hoarded by a public with no faith in the new state's finances.
Dondorf & Naumann were primarily known for playing cards and chromolithographic work; their banknote commissions were a secondary business, and Italian authorities turned to Frankfurt partly because domestic printing infrastructure for secure currency was still underdeveloped in the early Kingdom.