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50 Lire Banca di Trento e Bolzano - 1st type
| Issuer | Banca di Trento e Bolzano |
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| Year | 1976-1977 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Reverse description | Brown-toned print carrying vignettes of a castle and a church evoking the architectural heritage of the Trentino-Alto Adige region. The left margin panel bears payee information and authorising signatures in black, while the right margin carries a restriction clause limiting circulation to Italy. The compact composition balances pictorial and textual elements in a format typical of Italian emergency circulating cheques of the 1970s. |
| Reverse lettering | Banca Di Trento E Bolzano Società Per Azioni - Capitale Sociale L. 1.000.000.000 - Sede Sociale Trento - Iscritta Al N. 3935 Del Registro Delle Imprese Presso Il Tribunale Di Trento VALE 50 LIRE IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUÒ CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA (Translation: Bank of Trento and Bolzano Joint Stock Company - Share Capital and Reserves: 1,000,000,000 Lire - Registered Office in Trento - Enrolled Number 3935 in the Business Register at the Court of Trento Worth 50 Lire This check may be circulated only in Italy) |
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The Banca di Trento e Bolzano was one of several regional Italian banks authorized to issue small-denomination fiduciary notes in the 1970s to compensate for a genuine shortage of coin in circulation — a chronic problem in Italy during that decade, when copper and nickel coins were hoarded, lost to vending machines, or simply not minted in sufficient numbers. These mini-assegni, as they were popularly called, occupied a legal grey zone: technically sight-draft checks rather than banknotes, but functioning as everyday currency in their home regions.
The 1st type designation distinguishes this from later printings with revised typography or security features, a distinction that matters to completists working through the full Trento e Bolzano run.