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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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| Obverse lettering | Bolzano L. 50 La 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 pagherà a vista per questo assegno circolare Lire Cinquanta all ordine Lire 50 BANCA DI TRENTO E BOLZANO VALE FINO A LIRE 50 (Translation: Bolzano. 50 Lire The 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 will pay fifty Lire for this cashier's check on sight. By Order of 50 Lire Bank of Trento and Bolzano (at left) Worth Up To 50 Lire) |
| 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. |
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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.