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100 Lire
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale negli Stati Sardi |
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| Year | 1871 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Black intaglio print on red-pink paper; crowned arms of Genoa and Turin flanked by reclining allegorical figures in a vignette at top center; portrait of Christopher Columbus in an oval medallion at bottom center; elaborate ornamental guilloche border enclosing the central text panel with numeral 100 counters at left and right. |
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| Reverse description | Blank. |
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The Banca Nazionale negli Stati Sardi had already become something of a misnomer by 1871 — the Sardinian states it nominally served had been absorbed into unified Italy a full decade earlier. The bank retained its name and continued operating under its old charter while negotiations over Italy's eventual central banking structure dragged on, a process that would not conclude until the Banca d'Italia was finally established in 1893.
Notes from this transitional period circulated alongside issues from several competing regional banks, all legally valid but unevenly trusted across different provinces.