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150 Lire Banca del Salento
| Issuer | Banca del Salento / Consorzio fra gli Artigiani della Provincia di Lecce |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on a light-orange ground, the obverse bears a formal text block setting out the circular cheque obligation of the Banca del Salento, payable at sight for 150 Lire (Centocinquanta) to the Consorzio per gli Artigiani della Provincia di Lecce, dated 18 January 1977. An ornamental vignette occupies the left margin, while a serial number is printed in black at the lower portion of the note. The overall layout follows conventional Italian commercial cheque typography of the period. |
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| Reverse description | Letterpress-printed in black on a light-orange ground matching the obverse, the reverse carries a text block to the left identifying the issuing consortium and its president, Cav. Uff. Oronzo Giurgola, with an ornamental vignette centred on the note. A restriction clause limits circulation of the instrument exclusively to Italy. |
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Banca del Salento issued this 150 Lire note in 1977 as a fiduciary mini-assegno — a small-denomination paper instrument that proliferated across Italy during the acute coin shortage of the 1970s. The chronic scarcity of spiccioli forced banks, retailers, and local consortia to issue their own substitute change, and the Consorzio fra gli Artigiani della Provincia di Lecce backed this particular series to facilitate small transactions among artisan traders in the Lecce area.
The Banca del Salento series is among the more regionally specific of these emissions — tied to a province rather than a single retailer — which gives it slightly more documentary interest than the commercial miniassegni that flooded the same period.