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1 Scudo
| Issuer | Banca dello Stato Pontificio |
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| Year | 1853 |
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| Value | 1 Scudo = 100 Baiocchi |
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| Obverse description | Black letterpress print on white paper with ornamental guilloche borders framing the note on all sides. The issuer name appears at top centre, with the large denomination text SCUDO UNO in bold display type below. Warning legends occupy the left and right vertical margins, with PAGABILE A VISTA and three manuscript signature lines in the lower portion. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted reverse showing the plain paper stock; the obverse letterpress impression is clearly visible in bleed-through, with the guilloche borders and denomination text readable in mirror image. |
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The Banca dello Stato Pontificio was established by Pius IX in 1850, replacing the older Banca Romana arrangement, and this 1 Scudo note belongs to its earliest years of operation. The Scudo was already a dying unit by this point — Italian unification pressures were mounting, and the Papal States would lose most of their territories to the Kingdom of Sardinia by 1860, confining the bank's practical reach to an ever-shrinking enclave around Rome.
Low-denomination Scudo notes from this issuer are genuinely scarce in any condition; small notes circulated hard and were rarely preserved.