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105 Lire - State Polygraphic Institute
| Issuer | Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Printer | Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato - Officina Carte Valori |
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| Obverse description | Typeset ticket printed in letterpress, bearing the title and denomination in bold Latin script at centre. Inscriptions of the issuing ministry and directorate are arranged in horizontal registers above, with usage conditions printed in smaller text below. A date stamp has been applied to the face. |
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| Reverse description | Plain unprinted paper reverse in off-white, showing light impressions from the obverse letterpress text visible in relief. A rectangular control stamp in dark ink is applied diagonally at centre-right, and a vertical fold line runs the length of the ticket. |
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Italy's chronic small-change shortage of the 1970s pushed an unlikely range of institutions into issuing token substitutes, and the Istituto Poligrafico dello Stato — the state printing house — was among them. These 105-lire pieces were fiduciary tokens issued for internal wage or canteen purposes, circulating only within the institute itself rather than in general commerce. The printer, in effect, printed money for its own employees.
The denomination of 105 lire is the detail worth pausing on: it reflects actual transactional arithmetic of the period, not a round figure, which points firmly toward a specific payroll or subsidy application.