Catalog
10 Lire
| Issuer | Italy |
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| Year | 1882-1883 |
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| Printer | Government Papers Workshop San Teodoro (Officina Carte Valori in Roma - San Teodoro), Rome, Italy |
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| Reverse lettering | 10 - DIECI (Translation: 10 - TEN) |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Italy's Officina Carte Valori at San Teodoro was the state printing establishment responsible for this series, brought into operation as part of the broader post-unification effort to consolidate paper currency production under domestic control rather than rely on foreign printers. The 1880s were an awkward period for Italian fiduciary circulation — the country had suspended the lira's convertibility to metal in 1866 and would not fully restore it until 1883, meaning notes like this one circulated against a backdrop of ongoing monetary instability.
Pick 13 is among the smaller-denomination state notes of the period and is notably scarce in any collectible condition, largely because low-value circulating paper suffers the hardest use.