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150 Lire Banca Provinciale Lombarda
| Issuer | Banca Provinciale Lombarda |
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| Year | 1976-1978 |
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| Value | 150 Lire (150 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is laid out in the format of a circular bank cheque (assegno circolare), printed in dark brown and olive-green tones on pale paper. At upper left, a finely engraved guilloche vignette frames a classical female bust in profile, likely an allegorical representation of Lombardy. The upper register carries the issuing bank's name in a bold serif banner, below which appears the bank's legal details in small type. To the right, the cheque body contains printed text fields for date, serial number, payee, and the denomination stated in words (CENTOCINQUANTA), with the numeral 150 and LIRE in large bold type at lower right. A magnetic-ink character recognition (MICR) line runs across the bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | LA BANCA PROVINCIALE LOMBARDA S.P.A. - SEDE SOCIALE E DIREZIONE GENERALE IN BERGAMO - CAP. SOC. L. 4.000.000.000 VERS. PAGHERA A VISTA PER QUESTO ASSEGNO CIRCOLARE Bergamo, LIRE CENTOCINQUANTA ASSOCIAZIONE ESERCENTI E COMMERCIANTI DELLA PROVINCIA DI BERGAMO BANCA PROVINCIALE LOMBARDA SEDE DI BERGAMO VALE 150 LIRE |
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Banca Provinciale Lombarda was a regional cooperative credit institution headquartered in Bergamo, and this 150 Lire note belongs to a class of emergency small-change substitutes — fiduciary tokens, technically — that proliferated across Italy in the mid-1970s when acute coin shortages left retailers and banks scrambling for alternatives. The Italian government had authorized these mini-assegni under a temporary framework that allowed certain licensed banks and businesses to issue low-denomination instruments as transactional stopgaps.
The MICR encoding line is the telling detail here: it reflects the instrument's hybrid identity as something processed like a cheque rather than circulated like a banknote.