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300 Lire Banca Popolare del Montefeltro e del Metauro
| Issuer | Banca Popolare del Montefeltro e del Metauro |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Letterpress-printed cheque-format emergency note in pink and black on a light-orange underprint with a pink border frame. A decorative ornamental vignette occupies the centre of the note, flanked by the denomination and bank name in bold black typeface. The serial number is printed in black at the lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | BANCA Montecopiolo li 16 marzo 1976 Lit. 300 POPOLARE DEL MONTEFELTRO E DEL METAURO A vista pagate per questo assegno bancario lire TRECENTO *********** all`ordine nostro |
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This note belongs to the extraordinary wave of Italian fiduciary minassegni — essentially privately issued scrip — that flooded circulation in the mid-1970s when Italy suffered a catastrophic shortage of small-denomination coins. Banks, businesses, and cooperatives all issued their own substitutes, tolerated by authorities as a temporary fix that lasted, embarrassingly, the better part of a decade.
The Banca Popolare del Montefeltro e del Metauro operated in the Marche-Romagna border region. A 300 lire denomination is among the more unusual values in this scrip wave — most issuers stuck to rounder figures, making this an outlier worth noting for type collectors.