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150 Lire Banca Popolare di Bergamo
| Issuer | Banca Popolare di Bergamo |
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| Year | 1976-1977 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in pale beige tones and serves as the endorsement side of this miniassegno. At top centre, the heading 'GIRATE' appears above 'ASSOCIAZIONE ARTIGIANI DI BERGAMO' and the title 'Il Presidente' with a manuscript signature. A large light underprint cartouche in the central field carries the inscription 'VALE 150 LIRE' in stylised ornamental lettering, with the circulation notice 'IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUÒ CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA' along the lower margin. |
| Reverse lettering | GIRATE ASSOCIAZIONE ARTIGIANI DI BERGAMO Il Presidente VALE 150 LIRE IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUÒ CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA |
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Italian law technically prohibited the issue of private emergency tokens and notes during the coin shortage of the early 1970s, but enforcement was uneven enough that hundreds of banks, businesses, and municipalities issued their own fiduciary substitutes anyway. Banca Popolare di Bergamo's 150 lire note belongs to that wave — one of the more unusual denominations to emerge from a period when 50 and 100 lire coins had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or consumed by vending machines faster than the Zecca could replace them.
The 150 lire face value is the tell. It was never a standard Italian denomination, and its existence reflects a practical retail calculation rather than any monetary authority's design.