Catalogus
| Uitgever | Ministero del Tesoro (Italian Ministry of the Treasury) |
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| Jaar | 1882-1892 |
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| Valuta | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Afmetingen | Log in om details te zien |
| Vorm | Log in om details te zien |
| Drukker | Log in om details te zien |
| Ontwerper(s) | Log in om details te zien |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | REGNO D'ITALIA BIGLIETTO DI STATO A CORSO LEGALE, CONVERTIBILE, AL PORTATORE E A VISTA, IN MONETA METALLICA VALE CINQUE LIRE IL CASSIERE SPECIALE A DELEGATO DELLA CORTE DEI CONTI |
| Beschrijving keerzijde | Portrait of King Umberto I in an oval vignette to the left, enclosed within intricate floral and scroll engraving. At centre, the Savoy eagle with spread wings surmounts a cartouche bearing the Cross of Savoy, below which a rectangular panel contains the anti-counterfeiting legal warning text. To the right, a large ornamental numeral 5 is set within a circular guilloche medallion. The lower margin carries the decree and registration dates. |
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| Opmerkingen |
Italy's Ministero del Tesoro — not the Banca d'Italia, which didn't exist until 1893 — issued these small-denomination Treasury notes as a direct state obligation, bypassing the country's fragmented network of issuing banks entirely. The decade-long run and three successive signature pairs reflect high-volume, continuous production rather than distinct emission series; the block numbering tells the real story of output scale.
Printed domestically by the Officina Carte-Valori in Turin, the notes circulated hard. Low-denomination state paper takes punishment, and surviving examples from the early Dell'Ara/Crodara blocks are noticeably scarcer than the later Righetti-countersigned issues.