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300 Lire Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto - Succursale di Mezzolombardo
| Issuer | Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 300 Lires |
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| Obverse description | Mauve cloud underprint across the field. Lower right, a vignette of the Castello del Buonconsiglio in Trento. Denomination in figures at upper right; serial number at lower centre. Circular stamp with virtual stamp duty authorisation inscribed around the perimeter. |
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| Reverse description | Portrait format. Two lines of text above a decorative frame composed of small repeating light-orange crosses, serving as an endorsement grid for circulation endorsements. |
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Italian local fiduciary notes — fedi di credito — proliferated in the mid-1970s as chronic coin shortages forced savings banks and municipal institutions to issue their own low-denomination paper substitutes. The Cassa di Risparmio di Trento e Rovereto was among the institutions that extended this practice through branch offices, and the Mezzolombardo succursale note represents one of the more geographically specific variants in the series — a small town north of Trento in the Val di Non, issuing its own branch-attributed emergency scrip.
The Bank of Italy tolerated these issues under pressure but moved to suppress them by the late 1970s, which kept print runs short and circulation windows narrow.