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200 Lire Banca Credito Agrario Bresciano
| Issuer | Banca Credito Agrario Bresciano |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Value | 200 Lire (200 ITL) |
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| Obverse lettering | la BANCA CREDITO AGRARIO BRESCIANO Società per azioni - Sede in Brescia - Fondata nel 1883 - Capitale sociale L. 2.000.000.000 PAGHERÀ A VISTA PER QUESTO ASSEGNO CIRCOLARE BRESCIA 13.12.1976 Lit. * DUECENTO *** a ASSOCIAZIONE COMMERCIANTI DELLA PROVINCIA DI BRESCIA BANCA CREDITO AGRARIO BRESCIANO SEDE DI BRESCIA LIRE 200 |
| Reverse description | Printed in green on cream paper, the reverse is laid out as the endorsement (girate) panel, with the heading 'GIRATE' in large capitals within a guilloche border at the top. The central field presents a vignette of a multi-storey arcade building in perspective view over a large stylised 'B' monogram underprint, above which the payee name is typeset and below which a handwritten endorsement signature appears. The issuer's name is printed vertically at lower left alongside the circulation restriction legend 'IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUÒ CIRCOLARE SOLO IN ITALIA', with the denomination 'Lire 200' in the lower border. |
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By 1976, Italy's chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage had grown acute enough that regional banks, businesses, and even tobacconists were issuing their own token currency. The Banca Credito Agrario Bresciano, a cooperative agricultural lender serving the Brescia province, was among the institutions that stepped into the gap with locally produced miniassegni — small-format cheques intended to substitute for coins.
Tipografia Artigiana of Capriate d'Adda printed for several of these minor issuers during the period; their output was functional rather than refined, which is reflected in the relatively crude typographic execution common to this series. The Banca d'Italia tolerated miniassegni production until the early 1980s, when a coin restrike program finally made them unnecessary.