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24 Scudi
| Issuer | Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma |
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| Year | 1792 |
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| Reference(s) | P#S322 |
| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed cedola in black ink on plain paper, with the numeral '24' set in a decorative typeset cartouche at the top centre. The main body bears the full obligation text in Italian, issued in the name of the S. Monte della Pietà di Roma, with the denomination rendered in words within a guilloche-style ornamental band across the centre. Manuscript additions in period handwriting record the date, register number, quarter notation, and multiple official signatures. |
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| Reverse lettering | 24 VENTIQUATTRO (Translation: Twenty four.) |
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The Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma was among the oldest and most financially consequential of the Italian monti di pietà — pawnbroking institutions established under papal authority to offer credit outside the usury networks. By the late eighteenth century it functioned as a de facto state bank for the Papal States, and its fedi di credito, of which this 24 Scudi note is an example, circulated with genuine monetary authority across Rome and beyond.
The denomination itself is unusual. Most fedi di credito from this institution cluster around round figures; 24 Scudi suggests a specific ledger-driven origin, likely tied to the institution's collateral valuation practices rather than a standardized printing run.