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200 Lire Banca Agricola Popolare di Matino e Lecce
| Issuer | Banca Agricola Popolare di Matino e Lecce |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Printer | Tipografia di Matino |
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| Obverse description | Light yellow-green note with a fine guilloche border running along all four edges. The issuing bank's name, BANCA AGRICOLA POPOLARE DI MATINO E LECCE, is set in large bold letterpress type across the upper portion, with the branch designation SUCCURSALE DI LECCE below; the date MATINO lì 11 MAGGIO 1977 and the denomination Lit 200 appear at the top. A cursive script payment order reads 'A vista pagate per questo Assegno Bancario Lire duecento' across the centre, with the payee COOPERATIVA TRA PRODUTTORI AGRICOLI DI MATINO named in the order line, and an authorising manuscript signature at lower right above the sede di Matino legend; a circular bank stamp is impressed at upper left. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA AGRICOLA POPOLARE DI MATINO E LECCE - SUCCURSALE DI LECCE SOCIETÀ COOPERATIVA A RESPONSABILITÀ LIMITATA SEDE SOCIALE E DIREZIONE GENERALE IN MATINO MATINO lì 11 MAGGIO 1977 Lit 200 A vista pagate per questo Assegno Bancario Lire duecento all'ordine COOPERATIVA TRA PRODUTTORI AGRICOLI DI MATINO BANCA AGRICOLA POPOLARE DI MATINO E LECCE - SEDE DI MATINO TIPOGRAFIA DI MATINO |
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By 1977, Italy's chronic small-change shortage had driven dozens of local institutions — banks, shops, transit companies — to issue their own substitute currency. These fiduciary notes, technically illegal under postwar banking law but tolerated in practice, filled the gap left by the disappearance of low-denomination coins from circulation. The Banca Agricola Popolare di Matino e Lecce was one of the more obscure issuers, printing locally in Matino rather than using a national commercial printer.
The legal tolerance evaporated quickly. A 1977 decree formally prohibited private emergency currency, and most of these provincial issues were redeemed and destroyed within months of their appearance.