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350 Lire Banca Sella - Biella
| Issuer | Banca Sella S.p.A., Biella |
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| Year | 1976 |
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| Currency | Lira |
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| Obverse lettering | BIELLA, 3 GENNAIO 1976 Banca Sella Società per Azioni - Sede in Biella A vista pagate per questo Assegno Bancario Lire TRECENTOCINQUANTA GALLERIA D'ARTE PERAZZONE galleria d'arte numismatica filatelia antiquariato viale roma 11 13051 biella tel. 015/20955 all'ordine: (firma di traenza) |
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| Reverse lettering | Il presente assegno può circolare solo in Italia galleria d'arte numismatica filatelia antiquariato viale roma 11 13051 biella tel. 015/20955 giorgio perazzone |
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The 350 Lire denomination is itself the story here. Italian banks were authorized to issue fiduciary notes during the acute coin shortage of the 1970s — a shortage so severe that businesses routinely substituted candy, tokens, and telephone slugs as change. The Banca Sella, a small Piedmontese private bank headquartered in Biella, issued this note under the 1975 emergency framework that allowed credit institutions to circulate low-denomination paper as a temporary substitute for missing coinage.
The 350 Lire face value exists nowhere else in Italian monetary history — chosen to match specific retail transaction needs rather than any conventional denomination logic.