200 Lire Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto

Italian savings banks were authorized to issue low-denomination emergency notes — fedi di credito — under a 1974 decree that granted regional institutions temporary permission to plug the severe coin shortage that had been grinding down everyday retail transactions for years. The Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto was among the provincial institutions that took up that authorization, producing notes that functioned locally as small change substitutes rather than as formal banknotes in the traditional sense.

Acceptance was never legally compelled outside the issuing institution's network, and many of these notes were redeemed and destroyed quickly once the coin shortage eased in the late 1970s, making surviving examples disproportionately scarce relative to their original print runs.