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1000 Lire Type 1947
| Issuer | Banca d'Italia |
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| Year | 1947-1948 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette of the head of Italia, modelled after one of the Three Graces in Botticelli's Primavera, rendered in intaglio with fine guilloche underprint. The seal, type B, presents a frontal female head. Inscriptions identify the issuing authority and the payable-to-bearer clause, with the designer's credit R. GARRASI DIS. appearing in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in steel-blue intaglio on a fine guilloche underprint. The central panel carries the large numeral 1000 within an ornate frame, flanked on the left by a plain oval reserve for the watermark and on the right by an oval medallion bearing the interlaced monogram of Banca d'Italia. The issuing authority's name appears in a curved banner at the top, and the anti-counterfeiting warning legend runs along the lower border. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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