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40 Scudi
| Emittent | Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma |
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| Jahr | 1797 |
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| Währung | Scudo (1534-1835) |
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| Rückseitenbeschreibung | Plain paper reverse printed with the denomination in bold letterpress type, repeating the value in both numeral and written form across the entire surface in a grid-like pattern. The word QUARANTA alternates with the numeral 40, arranged in multiple rows, serving as a simple but effective anti-counterfeiting measure through repetition. A manuscript signature appears at the lower right. |
| Rückseitenlegende | 40 QUARANTA (Translation: Forty.) |
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The Sacro Monte della Pietà di Roma was one of the oldest pawnbroking and lending institutions in Catholic Europe, chartered in the sixteenth century specifically to offer credit to the poor at rates that undercut Jewish moneylenders — a function the papacy actively promoted. By the 1790s it had evolved into something closer to a state savings bank, and its notes circulated with a degree of confidence unusual for Papal currency.
1797 was a catastrophic year for that confidence. Napoleon's Italian campaign had already stripped the Papal States of cash through the Treaty of Tolentino indemnity, and issues like this one were pushed into circulation precisely because hard currency had been bled out of Rome. Whether this particular note predates or postdates the February signing of that treaty is the kind of question the month-specific issue date answers immediately.