100 Lire Cassa di Risparmio di Cuneo

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.