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10 Scudi
| Issuer | Banca dello Stato Pontificio |
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| Year | 1855 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Protection type | Embossed stamp |
| Protection description | Two small oval validation stamps with decorative wreath borders applied to the reverse, likely serving as official authentication marks. |
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The Banca dello Stato Pontificio was not a central bank in any modern sense — it was a chartered private institution operating under papal authority, primarily serving the financing needs of the Papal States government. By 1855, those needs were acute. The years following the 1848–49 Roman Republic episode had left the temporal administration of the Papal States financially strained, dependent on French garrison support and chronically short of hard currency.
The embossed stamp as the sole security feature reflects both the printing limitations of Roman commercial banking at mid-century and an institution that never fully trusted its own paper to circulate widely among a skeptical public.