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100 Lire Banca Cattolica del Veneto
| Issuer | Banca Cattolica del Veneto |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Value | 100 Lire (100 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | Green letterpress-printed note on green and blue guilloche underprint. Text arranged in formal banking certificate style, with the issuing institution's full legal name and registered capital inscribed across the face; a machine-printed serial number appears in black at left, with additional numerical codes in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Grey monochrome print on plain paper with a fine guilloche underprint. A central oval cartouche carries the denomination "VALE 100 LIRE" in bold serif lettering, flanked on the left by the word "GIRATE" in a decorative rectangular panel and on the right by a restriction notice panel. The endorsee's name, Unione Commercianti Esercenti Provincia Venezia, is printed diagonally in the upper centre, accompanied by a facsimile signature. |
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Banca Cattolica del Veneto was a regional cooperative bank with deep roots in the Catholic social movement of northeastern Italy — not a central authority but a private institution, and its issuance of circulating notes by this date is anomalous enough to warrant scrutiny. By 1976, Banca d'Italia held an effective monopoly on banknote issuance in the republic, which means this piece almost certainly functioned as an emergency substitute note or fiduciario — a locally accepted instrument issued during a coin shortage, not legal tender in any strict sense.
Italy's acute shortage of small coins in the 1970s drove hundreds of banks, municipalities, and transit companies to issue their own token substitutes. Most were cardboard or miniature paper slips, tolerated rather than authorized.