Vollständige Bilder anzeigen — kostenlose Registrierung
Mit Google fortfahren — kostenlos oder mit E-Mail registrieren

300 Scudi

Emittent Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma
Jahr 1788
Typ Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Nennwert Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Währung Scudo (1534-1835)
Material Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Größe Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Form Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Druckerei Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Designer Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Stecher Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Im Umlauf bis Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Referenz(en) Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Vorderseitenbeschreibung Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Vorderseitenlegende Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Rückseitenbeschreibung The reverse is entirely covered with manuscript notations, endorsements, and handwritten entries accumulated over the note's circulation history, consistent with 18th-century Papal States banking practice. The denomination 300 appears in typeset form in multiple corners within small decorative frames. A central typeset label reading DODICI is affixed, likely indicating a transaction or validation record.
Rückseitenlegende 300
Unterschrift(en) Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Sicherheitsmerkmal Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Beschreibung der Sicherheitsmerkmale Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Varianten Anmelden um Details zu sehen
Anmerkungen

The Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma was one of the oldest pawnbroking institutions in Europe, founded in 1539 to provide credit to Rome's poor as an explicit alternative to usurers. By the eighteenth century it had evolved into something considerably more sophisticated — effectively a deposit and credit bank operating under papal protection, with its fedi di credito functioning as transferable bearer instruments rather than simple pawn receipts.

The 300 Scudi denomination is among the highest in the Monte's fede series, placing this squarely in the realm of merchant and institutional transactions. These notes were handwritten or partially printed, with manuscript completion of amounts, dates, and countersignatures — forgery was a persistent concern, and the Monte prosecuted several high-profile cases in the 1780s.

The series continued in use until French occupation in 1798 disrupted the entire papal financial apparatus.