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| Italian Currency 100000 lire banknote |
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| Italian Centomila Lire, 100000 Lire |
Banca d'Italia. Lire Centomila - One Hundred Thousand Italian Lire.
The Italian lira was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002.
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Obverse: Portrait of Caravaggio from a drawing by the painter Ottavio Leoni, Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence; next to it, detail from Caravaggio's painting "The Fortune Teller", the Louvre, Paris; and in the lower part of the note a branch, detail from Caravaggio's "Rest on the Flight into Egypt", Doria Pamphili Gallery, Rome.
Reverse: "Basket of Fruit" (c. 1599) by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), which is displayed in Biblioteca Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan. A building taken from the background landscape represented in the painting, also by Caravaggio, titled "The Sacrifice of Isaac" (d. 1603) held at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Watermark consists of three elements: on the left, the same portrait of Caravaggio; immediately below it, in ligne claire, the "BI" monogram between ornamental motifs; to the right, chiaroscuro reproductions of adjacent rectangular figures, the long side vertical.
Legislation: Ministerial Decree of 1 September 1983.
Drawing: Guglielmo Savini.
Engraving: Trento Cionini (Obverse); Giorgio Capponi (Reverse).
Dimensions: 156 x 70 mm.
Paper: high-quality, slightly coloured, special pulp, watermark, luminous fibrils and a vertical security thread.
Characteristics: Copperplate and letterset.
Printer: Bank of Italy Printing Works (Officina della Banca d'Italia).
No. notes authorized: 1,559,600,000.
100,000 lire = (€ 51.65)