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100 Lire Banca del Friuli
| Issuer | Banca del Friuli S.p.A. |
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| Year | 1976-1977 |
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| Size | 121 × 60.5 mm |
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| Obverse description | Assegno circolare (cashier's mini-check) printed in brown on a multicolour underprint of blue, red, and purple guilloche patterns. The text body is laid out in check format with the issuing bank's name and payment obligation at top, the Associazione Commercianti endorsement in the centre, and a machine-printed serial number with control codes in the lower margin. The date 25 luglio 1977 and place of issue, Udine, appear as typeset entries within the check body. |
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| Obverse lettering | La Banca del Friuli S.p.A. PAGHERÀ A VISTA PER QUESTO ASSEGNO CIRCOLARE LIRE CENTO A ASSOCIAZIONE COMMERCIANTI PROVINCIA DI UDINE Udine, 25 luglio 1977 BANCA DEL FRIULI S.p.A. UDINE (Translation: The Bank of Friuli Limited Company will pay One Hundred Lire for this cashier`s check on sight. Trader`s Association of the Province of Udine Udine, July 25 1977 Bank of Friuli Ltd. Co., Udine ) |
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Banca del Friuli issued this emergency scrip following the catastrophic Friuli earthquakes of May and September 1976, which killed nearly a thousand people and left hundreds of thousands homeless across the Udine and Pordenone provinces. With the regional economy in shock and coins vanishing from circulation almost immediately, several local Friulian banks produced low-denomination paper tokens under emergency authorization to keep basic commerce functioning. This note is a direct artifact of that crisis period.
The 1976–1977 dating reflects the span of active use before normal coinage supply recovered. These issues were never legal tender in the strict sense and were redeemed and largely destroyed once the emergency passed — survivorship is accordingly limited.