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100 Lire Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo
| Issuer | Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on a light-green ground, the obverse is laid out as a bank cheque (assegno bancario), with a central ornamental vignette framed by decorative borders. The text body orders payment of one hundred lire to the Unione Provinciale Commercianti ed Esercenti di Cuneo, with the issuing branch identified as Sede di Cuneo. A serial number in black appears at lower left. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in black on a light-green ground to match the obverse, the reverse carries endorsement text to the left alongside a central ornamental vignette. The text clarifies the geographical validity of the instrument and provides a girata (endorsement) field for the Unione Provinciale Commercianti ed Esercenti di Cuneo. |
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Italian savings banks — the casse di risparmio — issued emergency small-denomination notes during the severe coin shortage of the mid-1970s. These circulated as fiduciary substitutes for coins that simply weren't reaching retail circulation fast enough, a stopgap authorized under provisions that had technically existed since the postwar period but were rarely invoked until inflation and hoarding gutted the supply of metal coinage. The Cuneo issues are among the more obscure provincial examples in this series.
Paper deteriorates quickly in till use. Surviving examples in decent condition are harder to locate than the more widely circulated bank-issued equivalents from larger northern cities.