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100 Lire Credito Italiano
| Issuer | Credito Italiano S.p.A. |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Mini-check format printed in brown and black on a red and blue guilloche underprint. The text of the circular cheque order is set in letterpress, with the denomination value repeated four times along the lower margin as a security device. The serial number is printed in black at the lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | GIRATE ASSOCIAZIONE PIEMONTESE GROSSISTI ORTOFLOROFRUTTICOLI - TORINO IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUO CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA (Translation: Endorsement Piedmont Vegetables Wholesalers Association - Torino This check may be circulated only in Italy) |
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Credito Italiano was one of the three major state-controlled banks — alongside Banca Commerciale Italiana and Banco di Roma — that dominated Italian corporate lending through the postwar decades. By 1976, however, the 100 lire denomination had been almost entirely supplanted by coins, and banknotes at this face value were a rarity in everyday commerce. This note exists as an institutional curio: a private bank cheque-format instrument in a denomination that the Banca d'Italia had effectively abandoned years earlier.
The G-prefix in the Pick reference places it in the Italian commercial bank issues category, a classification that reflects its ambiguous legal status — negotiable within limits, but not legal tender in the full sovereign sense.