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50 Centesimi Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti
| Issuer | Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti |
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| Year | 1918 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Buono di Cassa a corso legale da CINQUANTA CENTESIMI Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti 2 Gennaio 1918 (Translation: Legal tender cash voucher from FIFTY CENTS Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti 2 January 1918) |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in red on cream paper, with a dense guilloche underprint of interlocking geometric rosettes forming two large circular medallions joined at center by a vertical ornamental motif. The denomination numeral '50' appears at top center within the guilloche and again in large bold numerals at lower left and lower right. A four-line anti-counterfeiting warning in black letterpress is set at center over the guilloche ground. |
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The Cassa Veneta dei Prestiti was an Austrian military finance institution established specifically to manage currency in the occupied Venetian territories during the First World War. These notes were not issued by any Italian authority — they were instruments of occupation finance, denominated in Italian centesimi to ease acceptance among the local population while keeping the monetary system under Austro-Hungarian control.
The small physical format was deliberate for low-denomination emergency use. After the Italian victory in November 1918, the series was rapidly withdrawn and most examples destroyed during currency normalization, which accounts for the relative scarcity of surviving low-denomination pieces in any condition.