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82 Scudi
| Issuer | Banco di Santo Spirito di Roma |
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| Year | 1786 |
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| Value | 82 Scudi |
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| Obverse lettering | PIUS SEXTUS P.M.A.XI FRAN.DE ALBITIIS PRAEC. A DI VII GENNARO MDCCL XXXVI. SCUDI 82 MONETA BANCO DI S. SPIRITO DI ROMA La presente Cedola vaglia Scudi Ottanta- due Moneta Romana da giulj X per Scudo da pagarsi all' Esibitore VAGLIA PER LO STATO ECCLESIASTICO R N° BANCO DI S. SPIRITO |
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| Reverse lettering | OTTANTADUE 82 82 OTTANTADUE |
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The Banco di Santo Spirito, founded in 1605 by Pope Paul V, is among the oldest chartered banks in European history and issued fede di credito — faith certificates — rather than banknotes in the modern sense. These instruments functioned as transferable deposit receipts, passed between merchants and institutions by written endorsement on the reverse, accumulating a chain of signatures that effectively served as a ledger of circulation. An 82 Scudi denomination is irregular enough to suggest this was not a printed round-figure issue but a specific deposit receipt drawn against an actual sum.
The endorsement chain, if intact, is the document's real historical record.