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10 Fantastiliardi
| Issuer | Banca di Paperopoli |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Size | 124 x 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a bust of Daisy Duck (Paperina) to the right, with her characteristic bow as the dominant motif at centre. The Mickey Mouse logo appears at lower left. Issuer name and signatures of the Governor (Paperon de Paperoni) and Cashier (Rockerduck) are printed in letterpress. |
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| Reverse description | A full vignette illustrates Daisy Duck (Paperina) seated in her living room taking tea. The Mickey Mouse logo is positioned at lower right. A legal disclaimer and the decree reference are printed in letterpress across the lower portion. |
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Banca di Paperopoli is the fictional bank of Paperopoli — the Italian name for Duckburg — and this note is a licensed novelty item from the Scrooge McDuck universe, almost certainly produced in connection with Italian Disney publishing in the late 1990s. The denomination "Fantastiliardi" is an untranslatable Italian coinage built on "fantastiliardo," a comically inflated number invented for the McDuck canon to convey wealth beyond rational reckoning.
The watermark on a novelty piece of this kind is an unusual production choice — most comparable Disney-licensed currency ephemera from this period skipped security features entirely.