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200 Lire Cassa Rurale di Tesero
| Issuer | Cassa Rurale di Tesero |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Emergency banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green guilloche underprint covers the left two-thirds of the note, with the bank title in large bold letterpress at top and founding details in smaller type below. Script-style italic text states the cheque order payable to 'Amici del presepio Sez. ENAL - Tesero' with denomination '200' in large numerals at centre. To the right, a colour photographic vignette shows a traditional Trentino rural scene with figures in period dress on a wooden balcony. |
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| Obverse lettering | CASSA RURALE DI TESERO SOCIETÀ COOPERATIVA A RESPONSABILITÀ ILLIMITATA - FONDATA NEL 1904 - TESERO (TRENTO) A vista pagate per questo Assegno Bancario Lire it. duecento all'ordine Amici del presepio Sez. ENAL - Tesero TESERO, 1 dicembre 1977 C/C 103 IMPOSTA DI BOLLO ASSOLTA IN MODO VIRTUALE AUT. INT. FIN. TRENTO N° 44230 del 2-10-73 200 |
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Cassa Rurale di Tesero is a small rural cooperative bank serving the Fiemme Valley in Trentino, and this 200 Lire note belongs to the wave of locally issued fiduciary notes that proliferated across northern Italy during the coin shortage of the 1970s. The Italian state had largely abandoned low-denomination coinage in practical terms — inflation had eroded their value, and hoarding of metal was rampant. Municipalities, cooperatives, and transit companies stepped into the gap, producing their own small-change substitutes.
These notes had no legal tender status outside their issuing community and were accepted on trust alone. TipoLito 3A in Turin handled production for numerous such issuers across the region.