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5 Lire
| Issuer | Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia |
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| Year | 1867-1873 |
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| Size | 85 × 51 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CINQUE BANCA NAZIONALE NEL REGNO D'ITALIA CINQUE LIRE CONTROLLORE - CASSIERE 5 CINQUE LIRE BANCA NAZIONALE CONTE DI CAVOUR - CRISTOFORO COLOMBO ITALIA (Translation: FIVE NATIONAL BANK IN THE KINGDOM OF ITALY FIVE LIRE CONTROLLER - CASHIER 5 FIVE LIRE NATIONAL BANK CONTE DI CAVOUR - CRISTOFORO COLOMBO ITALY) |
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| Reverse lettering | 5 - CINQUE LIRE CREAZIONE 15 GENNAIO 1873 ITALIA La legge punisce col maximum dei lavori forzati a tempo i fabbricatori di biglietti falsi, quelli che falsificassero i biglietti della Banca Nazionale e coloro che introducessero nello Stato biglietti falsi o falsificati. (Translation: 5 - FIVE LIRE CREATION 15 JANUARY 1873 ITALY The law punishes the makers of counterfeit banknotes, those who counterfeit National Bank banknotes and those who introduce false or falsified banknotes into the State with a maximum of fixed-term forced labor.) |
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The Banca Nazionale nel Regno d'Italia was itself a provisional institution — Italy's banking system remained fragmented after unification, with several competing banks of issue operating simultaneously until the Banca d'Italia was finally established in 1893. This 5 Lire note falls squarely in that contested period, when no single authority commanded the full trust of the peninsula's population.
Dondorf & Naumann were primarily known as playing card and chromolithography printers in Frankfurt, which made them an unusual but not unique choice for currency work. The watermark is the sole security measure — modest protection for a denomination that would have seen heavy daily use in a country where 5 lire still represented real purchasing power.