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150 Lire Banca Popolare di Lecco
| Issuer | Banca Popolare di Lecco |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Printer | Officine Cartevalori Pozzoni, Cisano Berg |
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| Obverse description | Pink and green miniassegno (emergency cheque) with a blue header band carrying the stylised 'B' logo and the bank name 'Banca Popolare di Lecco' in white. A narrow green band below the header bears the bank's legal details in small type. The body of the note is covered with a repetitive green guilloche underprint of interlocking 'B' monograms; the large green numeral '150' occupies the right half as a bold watermark-style overprint. Printed cheque fields in dark ink record the issue location, date, and the payee 'Unione Commercianti Lecchesi – Lecco', with the denomination spelled out in words as 'lire CENTOCINQUANTA'. MICR encoding and a check number appear along the lower margin. |
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| Reverse lettering | GIRATE Unione Commercianti Lecchesi LECCO Banca Popolare di Lecco VALE LIRE 150 IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUÒ CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA |
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This is an Italian emergency token note — a so-called "miniassegno" — one of thousands of small-denomination scrip instruments issued by cooperative and savings banks during the 1970s when Italy faced a chronic shortage of small coinage. The Banca Popolare di Lecco was one of hundreds of institutions authorized to issue these instruments, which technically functioned as bearer checks rather than legal tender but circulated freely as change.
Officine Cartevalori Pozzoni in Cisano Bergamasco was among the principal printers of miniassegni, producing issues for numerous regional banks simultaneously.