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100 Lire Banco di Chiavari e della Riviera Ligure
| Issuer | Banco di Chiavari e della Riviera Ligure |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 100 Lire (100 ITL) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in orange over a full-field pink guilloche underprint. The word GIRATE appears in a framed cartouche at the top, followed by the endorsing body's name and the facsimile signature of Il Presidente. The denomination VALE LIRE 100 is set in large bold numerals at centre, and a small purple vignette of a sailing vessel appears below. A framed inscription at the foot restricts circulation to Italy. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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The Banco di Chiavari e della Riviera Ligure is one of the few regional Italian banks that retained note-issuing activity well into the postwar decades — an anomaly made possible by its status as an istituto di credito di diritto pubblico, a legal category that insulated certain provincial institutions from the full centralization of Italian banking reform. By the 1970s, such notes functioned essentially as local commercial instruments rather than general currency, circulating in narrow geographic and institutional channels around the Ligurian Riviera.
The 1977 date places this issue late in the series, close to the period when the Bank of Italy was actively consolidating note-issuing privileges.