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100 Scudi
| Issuer | Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Currency | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed cedola on plain paper, enclosed within a decorative ruled border, with the issuer's name S. MONTE DELLA PIETÀ DI ROMA in large italic script across the centre field. The denomination CENTO is set in a typeset cartouche flanked by ornamental guilloche bands, beneath which the full payment clause appears in italic letterpress. Manuscript entries recording the date, register number, and authorising countersignatures are inscribed by hand above and around the printed text, accompanied by an applied oval black ink stamp of the Stato Ecclesiastico. |
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| Reverse description | Plain paper reverse printed in letterpress with repeated typeset denominations arranged in a uniform grid across the entire surface, each unit comprising the numeral and word value stacked within decorative bracket devices. Two embossed dry-stamp seals are applied in the upper portion as additional authentication controls. |
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The Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma was a papal pawnbroking institution, not a bank in any modern sense — it issued cedole, interest-bearing certificates of deposit backed by pledged collateral, rather than currency intended for general circulation. These notes functioned closer to negotiable receipts than to banknotes, circulating among merchants and creditors who trusted the institution's centuries-old papal backing over the volatile coinage of the day.
By 1792, the Papal States were under considerable financial strain, with revolutionary pressures already destabilizing the peninsula. The embossed dry stamp and manuscript entries are characteristic of the cedole format — each note was individually completed by hand, making mass forgery difficult but also ensuring no two examples are identical in their written details.