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10 Paoli
| Issuer | Roman Republic |
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| Year | 1798 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Plain paper note with a typeset text layout within a decorative border composed of column and chain motifs. At upper left, an oval medallion bears the legend REPUBLICA ROMANA encircling a fasces, while at upper right a second oval vignette bears FEDE PUBLICA with a standing allegorical figure. A central spread-eagle vignette appears between the two medallions beneath the heading LIBERTA EGVAGLIANZA / REPUBLICA ROMANA. The body of the note carries the denomination in a framed cartouche reading P.o DIECI, with the full text of the assegnato pledge referencing Article X of Law 23, followed by a manuscript serial number and a handwritten authorisation signature. |
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| Obverse lettering | LIBERTA EGVAGLIANZA REPUBLICA ROMANA REPUBLICA ROMANA FEDE PUBLICA 1. Dell'Anno 7. P.o DIECI Repubblicano Assegnato di Paoli DIECI ipotecato sulli Beni Enfiteutici in Vigore dell'Artic. X. della Legge 23. Fruttifero Anno Sesto. Vaglia p. tutti li Dipartimenti della Rep.ca Romana |
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The Roman Republic of 1798 was a French-backed revolutionary state that abolished papal temporal authority and introduced a new administrative and monetary order almost simultaneously. These assignat-style paper obligations were issued within weeks of the Republic's proclamation in February 1798, backed in theory by confiscated Church and aristocratic properties — the same logic that had already destroyed the French assignat by this point.
The Republic lasted barely seventeen months before Neapolitan forces and then Napoleon's reorganization swept it away. Notes that survived did so largely outside circulation, since public trust in the paper was negligible from the outset and redemption never followed.