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300 Associazione Novarese Esercenti
| Issuer | Associazione Novarese Esercenti |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Yellow guilloche underprint covers the left half, with the issuer name in bold letterpress at top and address line below. To the left, the denomination "300" printed in red with "DI LIRE" above; to the right, a black engraved bird's-eye vignette of the walled city of Novara captioned "Mediolanensis Ducatus Civitas". Issue date, validity, series, and serial number appear along the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | ASSOCIAZIONE NOVARESE ESERCENTI NOVARA - CORSO TORINO, 7 - C.A.P. 28100 BUONO D'ACQUISTO ACCETTABILE SOLO CON CONSENSO DI LIRE 300 IL PRESIDENTE NOVARA 10-2-77 VALIDO SINO AL 31-12-77 SERIE CC / NOVARA Mediolanensis Ducatus Civitas |
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During the late 1970s, chronic coin shortages across Italy prompted hundreds of local merchants' associations, shopkeepers' cooperatives, and municipal bodies to issue their own miniassegni — small-denomination paper instruments that circulated as change substitutes. The Associazione Novarese Esercenti, the merchants' association of Novara in Piedmont, issued this piece as part of that broader improvised monetary stopgap. These notes had no legal tender status but were accepted by member businesses within the issuing locality.
The Banca d'Italia eventually moved to suppress the practice, and most miniassegni were withdrawn by the early 1980s, leaving surviving pieces as highly collectible artifacts of a peculiarly Italian monetary episode.