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| Issuer | Banca dello Stato Pontificio |
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| Year | 1867 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA DELLO STATO PONTIFICIO PAGABILE A VISTA DVECENTO LIRE IL GOVERNATORE Il Cassiere Il Com. del Gov. ANNULLATO |
| Reverse description | Brown print on plain paper; a central guilloche panel is flanked by two heraldic griffins at the bottom, rendered in intaglio style. The design is largely visible as a mirror impression through the thin paper stock, with triangular corner ornaments at upper left, upper right, and lower center. |
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The Banca dello Stato Pontificio was operating on borrowed time when this note was issued. By 1867, Garibaldi's forces had already made two attempts on Rome, and the temporal power of the papacy was visibly collapsing — it would survive only as long as the French garrison remained. The bank continued issuing high-denomination paper largely to finance an administration that had lost most of its territorial revenue when the Papal Legations were absorbed into unified Italy after 1860.
When French troops finally withdrew in 1870 and Rome fell to the Kingdom of Italy, the bank's notes became inconvertible almost overnight. Redemption was protracted and contested.