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150 Lire Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto - Succursale di Mezzolombardo
| Issuer | Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Size | 120 x 62 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Mezzolombardo 25 marzo 1977 L. 150 Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto SUCCURSALE DI MEZZOLOMBARDO (dans un cercle :) IMPOSTA BOLLO VIRTUALE AUTORIZZ. INT. FIN. TRENTO N° 43752/73 del 27-9-1973 A vista pagate per questo Assegno Bancario Lire centocinquanta --- al portatore c/c N. 10700 (signature) N° 78547 |
| Reverse description | Portrait format with a two-line text caption above a decorative frame composed of small, light-orange crosses arranged in a repeating guilloche-style pattern. |
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This is a fiduciary note — a "miniassegno" — issued by a savings bank to alleviate the catastrophic small-change shortage that gripped Italy through the mid-1970s. The coin crisis was so severe that banks, businesses, and municipalities all began printing their own low-denomination substitutes, with the Bank of Italy grudgingly tolerating the practice rather than endorsing it. The Mezzolombardo branch designation makes this a geographically specific issue within the broader Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto network — branch-specific miniassegni are consistently scarcer than head-office issues.
The series was nominally redeemable at face value but widely traded at a discount by 1977.