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10 Lire
| Issuer | Italy |
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| Year | 1882-1883 |
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| Printer | Government Papers Workshop San Teodoro (Officina Carte Valori in Roma - San Teodoro), Rome, Italy |
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| Obverse description | At left, a large numeral "10" enclosed within an ornate guilloche circle printed in orange; a corresponding orange guilloche circle with legal text appears at right. The central field carries the main text block in black letterpress, set against a light green guilloche underprint with the denomination "DIECI LIRE" and numeral "10" repeated around its perimeter. Series numbers appear at upper left and lower right, with serial numbers at upper right and lower left. |
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| Obverse lettering | REGNO D`ITALIA - 10 - REGNO D`ITALIA - 10 BIGLIETTO GIA` CONSORZIALE A CORSO FORZOSO ED INCONVERTIBILE VALE DIECI LIRE Legge 25 Dicembre 1881 Il Cassiere Speciale Il Delegato della Corte del Conti REGNO D`ITALIA - 10 - REGNO D`ITALIA - 10 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. (Translation: KINGDOM OF ITALY - 10 - KINGDOM OF ITALY - 10 ALREADY CONSORTIUM TICKET FORCED TENDER AND INCONVERTIBLE IT`S WORTH TEN LIRE Law 25 December 1881 The Special Cashier The Delegate of the Court of Auditors KINGDOM OF ITALY - 10 - KINGDOM OF ITALY - 10 The law punishes the makers of counterfeit banknotes, those who introduce and use them in the Kingdom and those who, having received them as genuine, put them back into circulation after having discovered their falsity.) |
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Italy's Officina Carte Valori at San Teodoro was the state printing establishment responsible for this series, brought into operation as part of the broader post-unification effort to consolidate paper currency production under domestic control rather than rely on foreign printers. The 1880s were an awkward period for Italian fiduciary circulation — the country had suspended the lira's convertibility to metal in 1866 and would not fully restore it until 1883, meaning notes like this one circulated against a backdrop of ongoing monetary instability.
Pick 13 is among the smaller-denomination state notes of the period and is notably scarce in any collectible condition, largely because low-value circulating paper suffers the hardest use.