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100 Lire Cassa Rurale di Tesero
| Issuer | Cassa Rurale di Tesero |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the entire field. Issuer name in bold serif type at top, with cooperative details below. Script-style italic text on the left states the cheque order for 100 lire payable to Amici del presepio, Sez. ENAL - Tesero. A colour vignette at right shows three Magi figures in a Nativity scene. |
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| Obverse lettering | CASSA RURALE DI TESERO SOCIETÀ COOPERATIVA A RESPONSABILITÀ ILLIMITATA - FONDATA NEL 1904 - TESERO (TRENTO) A vista pagate per questo Assegno Bancario Lire it. cento all'ordine Amici del presepio Sez. ENAL - Tesero TESERO, 1 dicembre 1977 C/C 103 IMPOSTA DI BOLLO ASSOLTA IN MODO VIRTUALE AUT. INT. FIN. TRENTO N° 44230 del 2-10-73 100 |
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The Cassa Rurale di Tesero is a small cooperative rural credit institution in the Trentino-Alto Adige region, and notes like this one were issued as fiduciary instruments — essentially local scrip — to ease small-denomination shortages during Italy's chronic coin scarcity of the 1970s. The Italian state formally tolerated, then eventually regulated and phased out, these private emission notes through the late 1970s. Hundreds of different casse rurali, tobacconists, and municipalities issued similar paper across the decade.
TipoLito 3A in Turin printed a significant volume of this regional scrip for northern Italian issuers during the period, functioning effectively as a commercial job printer rather than a security printer.