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100 Lire Banca di Credito Agrario Bresciano
| Issuer | Banca Credito Agrario Bresciano |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | la BANCA CREDITO AGRARIO BRESCIANO Società per azioni - Sede in Brescia - Fondata nel 1883 - Capitale sociale L. 2.000.000.000 aumentato a L. 4.000.000.000 nel mese di febbraio 1976 - Riserve L. 16.310.980.282 PAGHERÀ A VISTA PER QUESTO ASSEGNO CIRCOLARE BRESCIA 13.12.1976 Lit. * CENTO *** a ASSOCIAZIONE COMMERCIANTI DELLA PROVINCIA DI BRESCIA BANCA CREDITO AGRARIO BRESCIANO SEDE DI BRESCIA LIRE 100 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in a uniform salmon-rose tone and serves as the endorsement (girate) face of the miniassegno. A large stylised numeral '100' underprint occupies the centre, overlaid by a vignette of a Brescia cityscape or piazza seen in perspective. The payee institution name is restated at upper centre with a manuscript endorsement signature below, and the bank's name appears vertically at lower left; a bottom panel repeats the denomination 'Lire 100' within a guilloche border. |
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In the mid-1970s, Italy's chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage prompted a peculiar workaround: local banks and chambers of commerce began issuing their own paper substitutes, technically mini-assegni — negotiable cheques rather than banknotes proper. The Banca di Credito Agrario Bresciano's 100 Lire notes belong to this moment, circulating in and around Brescia as functional pocket change rather than as instruments of formal credit.
Tipografia Artigiana Caprotti d'Adda was a small Lombardy commercial printer, not a security press. The security features, by any professional standard, are minimal — which mattered little, since face value was too low to incentivize sophisticated counterfeiting.