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100 Lire Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto - Succursale di Mezzolombardo
| Issuer | Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 100 Lires |
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| Obverse description | Cloudy vignette background with a view of the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento at lower right. Denomination in numerals at upper right; serial number at bottom centre. Text block identifies the issuing branch at Mezzolombardo with date 25 marzo 1977. |
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| Reverse description | Plain field printed in portrait orientation with a decorative border composed of small light-orange crosses arranged in a repetitive frame pattern. Two lines of text appear above the frame, restricting circulation to Italy and providing endorsement lines. |
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Emergency local scrip issued during the 1970s Italian coin shortage, when municipalities, savings banks, and cooperatives across northern Italy produced their own low-denomination substitutes to fill the gap left by hoarded and melted coinage. The Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto issued these notes through individual branch offices, with the Mezzolombardo branch explicitly named — an unusual degree of local specificity that reflects how fragmented and informal the whole system was.
These miniassegni, as they were commonly known, had no formal legal tender status. Acceptance was essentially voluntary and geographically limited to the issuing branch's immediate area.