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50 Lire Lupetta
| Issuer | Banca d'Italia |
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| Year | 1942-1943 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | At left, a large circular guilloche vignette framed by a wreath of fruits and foliage. To the right, an intaglio portrait medallion of a female head in profile, rendered in reddish-brown. The central field carries the denomination in bold letterpress. At lower centre, two manuscript signature lines for the Governor and the Cashier, with serial numbers repeated at upper right and lower left. |
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| Protection description | Head of Julius Caesar; '50 LIRE' repeated on vertical edges |
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The "Lupetta" nickname — from the small wolf's head watermark embedded in the paper — is the clearest thing that distinguishes this issue from its predecessor series. Production moved to L'Aquila after the Rome facilities faced increasing disruption from Allied bombing campaigns, making the printer's location itself a record of wartime dislocation.
Notes of this type circulated during a period when confidence in Italian paper currency was collapsing faster than the notes could be printed. Many survivors show heavy use — the denomination was practical for daily transactions at a moment when prices were rising sharply ahead of the 1943 armistice and subsequent monetary chaos.