Catalog
10 Lire Provisional - Not Issued
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia |
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| Printer | De La Rue (Thomas de la Rue; Thomas De La Rue & Co.; TDLR), London, United Kingdom (1821-date) |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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| Protection description | Waving lines and 'BANCA NAZIONALE DEL REGNO D'ITALIA' written in four lines. |
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Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia commissioned this note from De La Rue in London but never placed it into circulation — one of several denominations prepared during the bank's transitional period before the Banca d'Italia consolidation of 1893 absorbed it along with Banca Nazionale Toscana and Banca Toscana di Credito. The exact reason this specific 10 Lire denomination was withheld from issue is not firmly documented, though overproduction of lower denominations and shifting monetary policy in the 1880s–90s periodically made certain prepared notes redundant before they were ever signed or distributed.
De La Rue's London production for Italian issuers was not unusual in this period, but unissued remainders from that relationship are considerably scarcer than their circulated counterparts.