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300 Lire - Cassa rurale di Moena `Trento`
| Issuer | Cassa Rurale di Moena (Trento) |
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| Year | 1977 |
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| Value | 300 Lires |
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| Obverse description | The face of this emergency cheque-currency note is covered with a repetitive underprint of crosses formed by pairs of light brown chain links. The four corners each bear the value numeral '300', with the municipal coat of arms of Moena at left and a vignette of the Alpe Lusia alpine landscape at right. A serial number appears at lower right. |
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| Reverse lettering | Il presente assegno può circulare soltanto in Italia GIRATE ASSOCIAZIONE ALBERGATORI MOENA E PASSO S. PELLEGRINO IL PRESIDENTE (signature) (logo) 300 |
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Italian emergency small-change scrip — fiduciary notes issued by local savings cooperatives to ease the chronic coin shortage that plagued Italy through the 1970s. The Banca d'Italia tacitly tolerated these emissions rather than endorsed them; their legal standing was always ambiguous, and the practice was eventually shut down by decree in 1979.
Moena is a small Ladin-speaking commune in the Fassa valley, and its cassa rurale was one of dozens of Alpine cooperatives that resorted to this workaround. Most circulated only within a tightly defined local area and were redeemed quickly, which makes surviving examples surprisingly scarce relative to how many were printed.