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| 正面描述 | Typeset letterpress note within a decorative engraved border of repeated ornamental units. The issuer's name S. MONTE DELLA PIETÀ DI ROMA is set in large italic script at centre, above the payment clause stating the cedola's value of Scudi Romani Quattrocento at ten giulj per scudo payable to the bearer. The denomination 400 appears in a cartouche at the top centre, with the date SETTE GENNARO MILLE SETTECENTO OTTANTOTTO printed in small capitals above the issuer's name. Multiple manuscript endorsements, register notations, and official stamps are present across the face. |
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| 背面铭文 | 400 |
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The Monte di Pietà in Rome was among the oldest pawnbroking institutions in Europe, chartered in 1539 under papal authority to provide credit to the poor at controlled rates — a direct counter to usurious moneylenders. By the late eighteenth century it had evolved into something closer to a deposit bank, and these large-denomination scudi notes functioned more as transferable receipts between merchants and ecclesiastical creditors than as everyday currency.
Four hundred scudi was a substantial sum. This was not a note that changed hands at a market stall.