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10 000 Lire
| Issuer | Banca d'Italia |
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| Year | 1945-1947 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA D'ITALIA CAPITALE VERSATO LIRE 300.000.000 L. it 10.000 Titolo provisorio e a vista equivalente a biglietti di banca per la somma complessiva di lire Diecimila IL GOVERNATORE IL CASSIERE (Translation: Bank of Italy Paid-up capital 300 000 000 lire 10 000 Italian lire Provisional and on demand security equivalent to banknotes for the total sum of ten thousand lire The governor The cashier) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by the large denomination numeral and text "LIRE 10.000" rendered in bold serif lettering against a fine guilloche underprint in salmon-pink tones, framed by a plain rectangular border. |
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This series was issued during the immediate postwar period, when Italy's currency had been catastrophically inflated by wartime spending, Allied Military Currency injections, and the near-total collapse of industrial output. The 10,000 Lire denomination — enormous by prewar standards — was a direct consequence of that inflation, and its existence marks how far the lira had fallen in real purchasing power by the mid-1940s.
Printed on a notably elongated format, this note was produced under difficult conditions at a time when the Banca d'Italia was still reconstituting normal operations following the war. Known to develop brittleness along the horizontal fold lines due to paper quality constraints of the period.