100 Lire Banca di Credito Agrario Bresciano

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.