Catalog
200 Lire
| Issuer | Regie Finanze, Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia |
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| Year | 1799 |
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| Value | 200 Lire (80⁄1) |
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| Obverse description | At left, a letterpress vignette of a kneeling figure beneath a portrait bust; at centre, the denomination in letterpress text flanked by two dry-embossed treasury seals; at right, a vignette of an armoured figure accompanied by a lion. The note carries a manuscript date and handwritten inscriptions in the tradition of period Piedmontese treasury issue practice, on aged cream paper with toning consistent with its late eighteenth-century origin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Issued by the Regie Finanze — the royal treasury administration, not a central bank — at a moment when the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia was in acute crisis. French forces had occupied much of the mainland territories by 1798, forcing Charles Emmanuel IV to abdicate his continental holdings and retreat to Sardinia. This note belongs to the last gasp of Piedmontese paper currency before French annexation of Piedmont in 1798–1800 effectively ended the kingdom's mainland financial apparatus entirely.
Survival rate is low. Notes from this final period were issued under administrative collapse and had no orderly redemption.