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| 表面の説明 | Letterpress-printed note in black ink on plain paper, with a decorative engraved border framing the entire face. The issuer's name S. MONTE DELLA PIETÀ DI ROMA is set in large display type at the centre, above the written denomination Centoquaranta rendered in an ornate guilloche-style panel. The denomination numeral 140 appears in a framed cartouche at the top, with the date QUINDICI GENNARO MILLE SETTECENTO OTTANTOTTO (15 January 1788) inscribed above the issuer line; manuscript annotations, handwritten signatures, and an official registry number appear throughout the face. |
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| 裏面の銘文 | 140 |
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The Monte di Pietà in Rome was among the oldest pawnbroking institutions in Europe, established in 1539 under papal authority to provide credit to the poor as an alternative to usurious private lenders. By the late eighteenth century it had evolved into something closer to a deposit and lending bank, issuing these high-denomination fedi di credito — essentially transferable credit certificates — as a form of fiduciary money circulating among Rome's merchant and clerical classes.
At 140 scudi, this is an odd denomination by any standard. The Monte issued notes in irregular face values tied to specific deposit transactions rather than a rationalized denomination ladder, which means each note was in some sense unique to its original issuance event.