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100 Lire Banca Provinciale Lombarda
| Issuer | Banca Provinciale Lombarda |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Green on light green underprint. To the left, an intricate guilloche vignette frames a classical female bust in profile, crowned and draped in antique style. The upper register bears the issuer's name in bold letterpress within a green decorative band, below which a subsidiary line reads the bank's registered seat and social capital in Bergamo. The central field, ruled for handwritten completion, carries the denomination LIRE CENTO in large type alongside the printed date and payee fields for the Associazione Esercenti e Commercianti della Provincia di Bergamo, with the value numeral 100 at lower right flanked by a guilloche scroll. A MICR-encoded strip runs along the bottom edge. |
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| Reverse description | Plain light beige paper with a large pale guilloche watermark-style underprint of the numeral 100 at right. The left panel carries a wavy-line security underprint with the printed legend IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUO CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA in vertical orientation. The central area bears a rubber-stamped endorsement block in black for the Associazione Esercenti e Commercianti della Provincia di Bergamo, with the heading IL PRESIDENTE above a manuscript signature, and scattered red ink spots from the stamp pad. |
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Banca Provinciale Lombarda was one of several regional Italian banks still issuing low-denomination paper instruments into the late 1970s — not banknotes in the Banca d'Italia sense, but assegni circolari and fiduciari that filled a practical gap during the chronic small-change shortage that plagued Italy through that decade. The coin shortage was severe enough that bus companies, shops, and regional banks all issued substitutes with tacit official tolerance.
The Turati Lombardi imprint is the detail worth noting here. The Milan firm specialized in commercial and securities printing rather than state currency work, which shows in the production approach — functional, regionally distributed, built for quick turnover rather than longevity.