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150 Lire - Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto
| Issuer | Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Printer | Tipolitografia Stampa Rapida, Trento |
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| Obverse description | Horizontal format. At left, a photographic vignette of a mountain landscape, characteristic of the Dolomiti region. Central text block carries the issuing bank's name, branch designation, and the written denomination; the numeral value appears at right. A serial number and a virtual stamp tax authorisation cartouche are printed in the lower right area. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries an eight-line text legend printed in portrait orientation across the upper portion of the note, set above a rectangular frame formed of thin light-blue lines. Within the frame, the endorsement signature of the Azienda Autonoma di Soggiorno appears alongside the numeral value. |
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Italian fiduciary notes of this type — locally issued, privately printed, and redeemable only within a specific institution's network — proliferated in the mid-1970s as chronic small-coin shortages made ordinary retail transactions genuinely difficult. The Banca d'Italia had failed to keep fractional coinage in adequate supply, and savings banks across northern Italy stepped into the gap with their own emission authority under a 1975 emergency framework.
The 150 Lire denomination is itself an artifact of that chaos — an increment that would never exist under normal monetary conditions, calibrated to cover real transaction shortfalls rather than any conventional rounding scheme.