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50 Lire Banca di Trento e Bolzano - 2nd type
| Issuer | Banca di Trento e Bolzano |
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| Year | 1977 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | The obverse of this miniassegno carries the issuing bank's name, BANCA DI TRENTO E BOLZANO, in a bold header panel at the top, flanked by the date Bolzano, 26 ottobre 1977 and a small serial number box at upper left. The central field bears the large stylised monogram BTB in an interlocking letterpress design over a salmon-orange guilloche underprint, accompanied by the handwritten-style inscription Lire Cinquanta and the promise text pagherà a vista per questo Assegno Circolare. At lower left a circular vignette reads VALE FINO A LIRE 50, while the beneficiary panel names the Unione del Commercio e del Turismo della Provincia di Bolzano in both Italian and German, with a manuscript signature and the denomination 50 repeated in a bottom cartouche. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in the same salmon-orange tone on a plain paper ground, with the bank name BANCA DI TRENTO E BOLZANO repeated in a header panel at the top alongside the customary legal small print. Two heraldic coat-of-arms vignettes occupy the centre — the Tyrolean eagle on the left shield and a starred device on the right shield, each surmounted by a crown — flanked symmetrically by the value statement VALE 50 LIRE printed twice in large bold type. A vertical legend along the right margin reads IL PRESENTE ASSEGNO PUO' CIRCOLARE SOLTANTO IN ITALIA, and a bilingual beneficiary inscription in Italian and German runs vertically along the left margin. |
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The Banca di Trento e Bolzano was one of Italy's regional issuing institutions serving the autonomous province of Alto Adige — a bilingual, politically sensitive territory transferred from Austria after 1918. By 1977, the 50 Lire denomination was barely worth printing in standard monetary terms; chronic inflation had so eroded small denominations that the Banca d'Italia had effectively abandoned low-value coinage production, creating a genuine transactional gap that regional and commercial entities rushed to fill with small-format fiduciary notes.
This "2nd type" designation distinguishes it from an earlier Trento e Bolzano 50 Lire issue — differences typically involving serial numbering layout or minor typographic revisions rather than fundamental redesign.