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32 Scudi
| Uitgever | Monte di Pietà di Roma |
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| Jaar | 1788 |
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| Valuta | Log in om details te zien |
| Samenstelling | Log in om details te zien |
| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Rectangular |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | The face is entirely executed in letterpress within an engraved ornamental border of interlaced guilloche work, with the denomination numeral 32 set in a decorative cartouche at the top centre. The body text, in Italian, identifies the issuing institution as S. Monte della Pietà di Roma and states the obligation to pay the bearer Scudi Romani Trentadue at ten giulj per scudo, valid throughout the Stato Ecclesiastico. Manuscript annotations, registry numbers, endorsements, and a handwritten date appear above and below the printed text, attesting to the cedola's active circulation history. |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | The plain paper reverse carries the denomination numeral 32 repeated in small typeset cartouches at each of the four corners, allowing rapid denomination identification. Manuscript endorsements and handwritten notations in ink are distributed across the surface, including apparent transfer or ownership inscriptions and authorising signatures consistent with multiple changes of hand during circulation. The paper exhibits pronounced fold lines and overall age toning characteristic of extensively used early Papal cedole. |
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| Opmerkingen |
The Monte di Pietà di Roma was one of the oldest functioning pawnbroking institutions in Europe, founded in 1539 under papal auspices to provide low-interest loans to the poor as an alternative to moneylenders. By the late eighteenth century it had evolved into something closer to a deposit bank, and its fedi di credito — of which this is one — functioned as transferable credit certificates rather than conventional banknotes. The 32 Scudi denomination is an odd one, suggesting this was issued against a specific pledged amount rather than produced in a round-figure series.
These instruments circulated primarily among merchants and institutions in Rome who trusted the Monte's papal backing. The French occupation of Rome in 1798 effectively ended the institution's independent operations.