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100 Lire
| Issuer | Banca dello Stato Pontificio |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Brown letterpress print with black overprint; allegorical female figures occupy the left and right margins, with two cherubs rendered in the lower portion of the design. Guilloche underprint frames the central denomination area. |
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| Reverse description | Brown letterpress print; two oval portrait vignettes of male figures positioned at the upper left and upper right corners, linked by a horizontal guilloche band with circular denomination counters reading "100" on each side. |
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The Banca dello Stato Pontificio was issuing notes against an increasingly untenable political position. By 1867, French troops remained the only practical guarantee of the Papal States' survival against the Kingdom of Italy's unification drive — and that garrison was already unpopular in Paris. This 100 Lire note predates by just three years the September 1870 breach of Porta Pia, after which the bank's notes became obligations of a state that no longer existed.
Surviving examples tend to show heavy fold wear; these were working instruments of a government running short on options, not ceremonial currency.