5 Lire

Issuer	Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia
Year	1867-1873
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Size	85 × 51 mm
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Obverse description	The face is printed in black intaglio on a light blue and grey guilloche underprint with repeated legends CINQUE LIRE and BANCA NAZIONALE NEL REGNO D'ITALIA. At upper center, the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy appears in red within a countersign cartouche flanked by the bank name. Four portrait medallions frame the central text field: upper left bears a bust of Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour facing right; upper right bears a bust of Cristoforo Colombo facing left; lower left and lower right each carry a bust of Italia Turrita facing right and left respectively. At bottom center, three small circular vignettes are united by a decorated cartouche bearing the bank name and denomination 5 CINQUE LIRE; series letters and series numbers appear at upper and lower corners, with serial numbers printed in red at center left and center right.
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Reverse description	The back is entirely printed in black intaglio on an uncoloured ground, its full surface covered with a repeating pattern of the denomination 5 CINQUE LIRE interspersed with small stars each containing the numeral 5. At center, a large circular medallion carries a bust of Italia Turrita surmounted by a star; the medallion frame incorporates four subsidiary circles, each ornamented with a star and the numeral 5, enclosing the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Italy impaled with those of Turin, Florence, Venice, and Sicily. Corner cartouches bear stars and the repeated legend 5 CINQUE. The creation date and anti-counterfeiting legal text, set vertically into and around the word LIRE, appear at center left and center right.
Reverse lettering	5 - CINQUE LIRE CREAZIONE 15 GENNAIO 1873 ITALIA La legge punisce col maximum dei lavori forzati a tempo i fabbricatori di biglietti falsi, quelli che falsificassero i biglietti della Banca Nazionale e coloro che introducessero nello Stato biglietti falsi o falsificati. (Translation: 5 - FIVE LIRE CREATION 15 JANUARY 1873 ITALY The law punishes the makers of counterfeit banknotes, those who counterfeit National Bank banknotes and those who introduce false or falsified banknotes into the State with a maximum of fixed-term forced labor.)
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