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100 Lire Banca Belinzaghi
| Issuer | Banca Belinzaghi S.p.A. |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Assegno circolare (cashier's check) format printed in black on a blue and green underprint. The issuing bank's full corporate details and registered address appear in the upper inscription band, with the promise-to-pay text and denomination LIRE *CENTO* set in the body of the instrument. A serial number is printed in black at the lower left, with additional machine-printed control codes along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Light blue on white with a large central guilloche rosette bearing the bold overprint VALE LIRE CENTO in blue. The repeating text underprint BANCA BELINZAGHI covers the entire field. A green square endorsement stamp for LANIFICIO di SOMMA S.p.A. with a handwritten signature is applied at centre-left, consistent with a circulated endorsement. The vertical left margin carries the legend IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUÒ CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA within a ruled border, with the word GIRATE in a separate panel at the far left edge. |
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Banca Belinzaghi was a small Milanese private bank whose fiduciary notes circulated as a local emergency substitute during the Italian "coin shortage" crisis of the 1970s — a period when the state mint could not keep pace with demand for small-denomination coinage and merchants resorted to issuing their own paper scrip, telephone tokens, and candy in lieu of change. These notes had no legal tender status but were widely accepted within limited commercial networks in northern Italy.
The Banca d'Italia eventually moved to suppress privately issued circulating substitutes, making this series short-lived. Few examples survived casual commercial use.