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25 Lire
| Issuer | Ministero del Tesoro (Italian Treasury) |
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| Year | 1895 |
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| Value | 25 Lire (25 ITL) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by two large interlocking guilloche rosettes of differing geometric patterns, the left rendered in fine lathe-work with concentric interlaced ovals and a central floral motif, the right in a denser hexagonal guilloche field, both set within a dark stippled border. Numerals 25 appear at each corner in ornate script, and a vertical anti-counterfeiting warning text panel runs along the left margin. Horizontal banderole inscriptions at top and bottom record the Royal Decree and Court of Auditors registration dates, while the printer's imprint appears vertically along the right margin. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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| Comments |
The 1895 Italian 25 Lire Treasury note belongs to a short-lived denomination that was never comfortable in the monetary system. The Ministero del Tesoro issued small-denomination biglietti di Stato precisely because the banking system's silver coinage was chronically under-supplied — paper filled the gap that metal couldn't. The 25 Lire value was peculiar enough that it was dropped from later series entirely.
Printed entirely in-house by the Officina Governativa Carte-Valori in Turin, these notes avoided the foreign contract printing that characterized many contemporary Italian issues. The watermark is the sole security feature — modest protection for a note of this face value, but consistent with Treasury practice of the period.