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10 Lire Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti
| Issuer | Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse lettering | DIECI LIRE Saranno puniti i fabbricatori di buoni di cassa falsi, chi li usa, e chi, avendoli ricevuti per veri, li rimette in circolazione dopo conosciutane la falsità. CASSA VENETA DEI PRESTITI (Translation: TEN LIRE The manufacturers of false cash vouchers, those who use them, and those who, having received them as genuine, put them back into circulation after having discovered their falsity, will be punished. VENETIAN BANK FOR LOANS) |
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| Protection description | Not present. |
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The Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti was an Austro-Hungarian military finance institution established in 1918 to manage occupied Venetian territories — its notes were essentially an occupation currency, denominated in lire to ease acceptance among the local population but issued under enemy authority. The Italian government refused to recognize these notes as legal tender after the armistice, leaving holders with worthless paper almost overnight.
Printed in Vienna, the series circulated for only a matter of months before the collapse of the Habsburg front rendered the issuing authority extinct. Notes that survived did so largely outside circulation channels.