100 Lire

Features

Issuer	Italy
Issuing entity	Consorzio obbligatorio degli istituti di emissione
Król	Vittorio Emanuele II (1861-1878)
Type	Standard circulation banknotes
Year	1874 (1877-1879)
Value	100 Lire (100 ITL)
Currency	Lira (1861-2001)
Composition	Papier
Size	195 × 104 mm
Shape	Prostokątny
Demonetized	12 April 1888
Number	N# 393915
References	P# 7 Standard Catalog of World Paper Money (10 volumes).

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Series: Biglietto Consorziale

Obverse

(en) Italian Kingdom coat of arms at upper center, held by two little cherubs.
Encircled legal text at bottom left and upper right.
Encircled denomination 100 at upper left and bottom right.
Denomination "CENTO LIRE" held by a little cherub facing up on the center left and by a little cherub facing down on the center right.
On bottom center: sitting Italia Turrita benevolent towards two children lying down at her feet, the one on the left holding a fishing hook (allegory of commerce), the one on the right holding a gear (allegory of industry).
Head of god Mercurio (Ermes) on bottom right and upper left.
Head of god Bacco (Dioniso) on bottom left and upper right.
All the elements connected with decorations of flowers, leaves and branches, everything in blue color.
Text in black at center.
Decoration in light brown at center, in transparency behind the text, with repeated denomination "CENTO" and "100".
Matrix on the left border with writing "Regno d'Italia" in blue color.

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
100 - CENTO LIRE
REGNO D'ITALIA
BIGLIETTO CONSORZIALE
A CORSO FORZOSO, INCONVERTIBILE.
vale CENTO lire
Legge 30 Aprile 1874
Il Delegato del Consorzio
Il Delegato Governativo
CENTO LIRE - 100

La legge punisce i fabbricatori di biglietti falsi, chi li introduce e li usa nel Regno e chi, avendoli ricevuti per veri, li rimette in circolazione dopo conosciutane la falsità.

Reverse

(en) Encircled portrait of Italia Turrita facing left at center.
Repeated denomination 100 in letter and number on each corner, at upper and bottom center, in the central circle border and inside the right border matrix, everything in dark grey color.
Decoration connecting all the elements, passing around the two external circles, in light grey-violet color.
Series Number on top left and bottom right.
Serial Number on top right and bottom left.

Script: łaciński

Lettering:
100 - CENTO - CENTO - 100 - CENTO - CENTO - 100
CONSORZIO DEGLI ISTITUTI DI EMISSIONE

Watermark

Italia Turrita zwrócona w prawo wewnątrz lewego owalu.
Numer 100 wewnątrz prawego owalu. Automatically translated

Signatures

Giuseppe Dell'Ara (GDA)	Consortium Delegate
G. Mirone (GM)	Government Delegate

Printer

Officina Carte Valori in Roma - San Teodoro, Rome, Italy

Comments

(en)

With law n.1920 of 30 April 1874, was established a consortium (hence the name consortium tickets) composed of Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia, Banca Nazionale Toscana, Banca Toscana di Credito, Banca Romana, Banco di Sicilia and Banco di Napoli.

These institutions advanced the budget money (940 million) to the State and in exchange could issue these forced tender notes.

Initially the installation and printing work was commissioned to a printing house in Frankfurt, and then they decided to create a paper and valuables workshop in Rome with the latest printing machines. This change of program lengthened the printing time, in fact the first tickets were printed in 1875, with decree of 1874, and series of nine notes was completed in 1877. The Consortium ceased to exist on 30 June 1881 as provided for by Law n.133 of the previous 7 April, and the remaining debt (340 million) was borne by the State.

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Date	Signatures	No. printed
Undetermined
1874-Apr-30 (1877)	GDA, GM	600 000	(en) Serial Number from 1-00.001 to 60-10.000 (D.M. 04.08.1877)
1874-Apr-30 (1879)	GDA, GM	150 000	(en) Serial Number from 61-00.001 to 75-10.000 (D.M. 03.02.1879)

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