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1000 Lire Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti
| Issuer | Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 1000 Lire (1000 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | Denomination numeral 1000 appears in each corner of the note. The CVP monogram of the Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti is positioned at top center. A vignette of the goddess Athena (Minerva) in profile facing right occupies the left portion of the face. Series number is located at lower left, serial number at lower right. |
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| Reverse description | Denomination numeral 1000 is repeated in each corner of the note. The central field carries the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text in Italian, set within a plain typographic layout. |
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The Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti was established by the Austro-Hungarian military administration to manage finance in the occupied Veneto region following the Italian defeat at Caporetto in October 1917. These notes were a deliberate instrument of economic extraction — denominated in lire rather than crowns specifically to ease the drain of resources from occupied Italian territory without triggering the resistance that foreign-currency requisitions would have provoked.
The 1000 Lire is the highest denomination in the series and the scarcest by a significant margin. Most surviving examples show heavy fold lines consistent with actual wartime use, suggesting this value did circulate despite its size.