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150 Lire Credito Varesino
| Issuer | Credito Varesino S.p.A. |
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| Year | 1976-1977 |
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| Value | 150 Lire (150 ITL) |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
| Protection description | Repetitive fine-line guilloche underprint of stylised 'CV' monograms covering the entire obverse field; denomination numerals on reverse formed from a repeated micro-pattern guilloche overprint. |
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Credito Varesino was a regional savings bank based in Varese, Lombardy. These 150 lire notes belong to the broader phenomenon of Italian emergency small change — fiduciario currency issued by banks, municipalities, and transit companies throughout the 1970s to address a chronic shortage of low-denomination coins. The Italian state effectively tolerated private circulation money for nearly a decade, an arrangement without real parallel in other major Western economies of the period.
The 150 lire denomination is itself a marker of inflation — an amount that would have been inconceivable as a paper denomination in earlier postwar decades.