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2 lire
| Issuer | Hranilnica Ljubljanske Pokrajine (Sparkasse der Provinz Laibach) |
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| Year | 1944 |
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| Reference(s) | P#R3 |
| Obverse description | Brown on cream paper note with a fine guilloche border of heart-shaped and scroll ornaments framing the entire design. To the left, a rectangular vignette in dark brown letterpress presents a folk scene of a woman in traditional dress holding a child beside a wayside shrine column with a bird perched atop, surrounded by foliage and a wicker basket at the base. To the right, the denomination legend 'DVE LIRI' appears in a dotted decorative panel above the large numeral '2', with a faint coat-of-arms watermark visible in the guilloche underprint beneath the text block bearing the issuing authority name and two manuscript signatures above the anti-counterfeiting legend. |
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| Reverse description | Brown on cream paper note with the same guilloche border of heart-shaped and scroll ornaments as the obverse, printed in German. The left vignette repeats the identical folk scene of a woman in traditional dress with a child at a wayside shrine, rendered in dark brown letterpress. To the right, 'ZWEI LIRE' appears in a dotted decorative panel above the large numeral '2', with a faint guilloche underprint and coat-of-arms watermark; below, the text block names the issuing institution and carries two manuscript signatures, with the anti-counterfeiting warning at the foot. |
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The Hranilnica Ljubljanske Pokrajine was the savings institution of the Italian-administered Province of Ljubljana — a civilian apparatus operating under the German occupation that followed Italy's September 1943 armistice. These small-denomination notes were emergency scrip, filling the vacuum left when the Italian lira lost its administrative footing in the region. Svetlič was a local designer, which makes this an unusually domestic production for an occupation-era issue.
The R prefix in the Pick reference signals recognition as a regional emergency note rather than a formal state issue — a distinction that shaped how these circulated and how few survived postwar.