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100 Lire Banca Popolare di Lecco
| Issuer | Banca Popolare di Lecco |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is dominated by a blue header band carrying the bank's stylised 'B' logo at upper left and the full institution name 'Banca Popolare di Lecco' in large sans-serif capitals. A narrow green band beneath carries the bank's corporate details in small letterpress text. The body of the note presents a repeating guilloche underprint of interlocked 'B' monograms in light blue, over which cheque-style fields record the issue place, date, and payee order, with the denomination numeral '100' printed in large intaglio figures at the right; the issuing bank's name and an authorising signature appear at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries a uniform guilloche underprint of repeating interlocked 'B' monograms in pale blue across the entire field. At upper left the endorsement section is headed 'GIRATE' in bold, with the payee designation 'Unione Commercianti Lecchesi / LECCO' and an endorsement signature. The central and lower portions display the bank's 'B' logo vignette and the full institution name printed in mirror-reversed blue ink as a see-through register element, flanked by the denomination '100' in large numerals both inverted centrally and upright at the foot, with the legends 'VALE LIRE' repeated above each numeral panel. A small-print disclaimer runs along the bottom edge. |
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The Banca Popolare di Lecco 100 Lire note is a fiduciary circulating note — an assegno circolare or emergency small-change substitute — issued during Italy's acute coin shortage of the 1970s. With 100-lire coins disappearing from circulation almost immediately upon minting, northern Italian cooperative banks and commercial institutions were legally permitted to issue these low-denomination paper substitutes, redeemable locally. The practice was controversial; the Bank of Italy tolerated it without fully endorsing it.
Officina Cartevalori Pozzoni in Cisano Bergamasco handled production for numerous regional issuers across Lombardy during this period, functioning as the workhorse printer of Italy's fractional paper emergency.