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1 Lira Banca Toscana
| Issuer | Banca Toscana di Anticipazioni e Sconto |
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| Year | 1870 |
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| Reference(s) | P#FRANCOGAVELLOP-G0387C |
| Obverse description | Green and black note with the institution name BANCA TOSCANA DI ANTICIPAZIONI E SCONTO FIRENZE at top, below which appears the authorization text Approvata con R.Decreto 24 Aprile 1870. A serial number in red is centered between two oval guilloche vignettes each bearing the numeral 1, flanked by circular legend bands reading UNA LIRA. The central band carries the denomination UNA LIRA in bold letterpress, with manuscript signatures of the Presidente and Cassiere above a red circular institutional seal. |
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| Reverse description | Printed entirely in brown on a plain background, the reverse is dominated by a central oval intaglio vignette with a laurel-wreathed portrait of Dante Alighieri in right-facing profile, inscribed DANTE ALIGHIERI below. Guilloche borders frame the four corners, each bearing the numeral 1, with the legend UNA LIRA running along all four margins. Columns of anti-counterfeiting legal text fill the left and right panels flanking the central portrait. |
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The Banca Toscana di Anticipazioni e Sconto was one of several regional Italian institutions navigating an awkward transitional moment — national unification was complete but the Banca d'Italia did not yet exist, leaving a patchwork of regional issuers still operating under earlier concessions. A 1-lira denomination at this date is a small-change instrument, the kind of note that filled the gap left by chronic coin shortages in post-unification Italy, when silver and copper disappeared from circulation through hoarding.
Lithographed by G. Thumb in Bologna, not Florence — notable given the issuer's Tuscan identity.