This is a huge note from Italy - 19cm x 12 cm ( 7 1/2 in x 4 3/4 in in old money) and was issued right in the middle of world war II . It is the 100 lire from 1942/1943. The pictures are there to represent different things. the front has knowledge (woman) and Justice (man) and the reverse has a woman representing science
These are two Italian notes from the 1970's. The first is the 1976, 10000 lire note with Machiavelli on the front.
The second note is the 2000 lire from 1973. It has Galileo on the front and the zodiac and the Galileo telescope on the reverse. If you look closely it also has the leaning tower of pisa on the front.
There are loads of way to organise your collection of banknotes. most will depend on why you are collecting. I organise my one by country a-z but you could use subject or denomination for instance.
but of course there is one woman who are on loads of notes. Bahamas, Bermuda, British Honduras, Cayman Islands, Canada, Jersey, New Zealand, Australia, St Helena, Hong Kong, Gibraltar, jersey, Fiji, Falkland islands, Eastern Caribbean States, and of course Great Britain all have Queen Elizabeth II on their notes:
Other Possibles could be Buildings, Revolutionaries , Presidents, Kings, Queens, Jobs or you could list them as you find them !!!
The Italian Republic became a country in 1861, when all the regions of the peninsula with Sardinia and Sicily joined together to make up the country of Italy under King Victor Emmanuel II. Its capital city is Rome. there followed a parliamentary democracy until 1920 when Benito Mussolini imposed a fascist dictatorship which sided with Hitler's Nazi's during WWII. After defeat, in 1946 the monarchy was replaced by a republic.Italy was a founder members of NATO and the EU and adopted the euro in 2001.
Monetary units: 1 Lira = 100 Centesimi (up to 2001)
1 Euro = 100 Cents (2001 onwards)
The notes above are from various dates in the 70's, 80's and 90's. The first is the 10 000 lira note from 1984 with Alessandro Volta, the Italian inventor of the battery, on the front, with his mausoleum on the reverse. The 5000 lira note is from 1985 and features Bellini, the opera composer on the front and a scene from the opera Norma on the reverse,
The 2000 lira note is from 1990 and has Marconi, the inventor and has some of his inventions on the back - radio towers, a radio set and his yacht Ellectra . the first of the 1000 Lira notes is the one from 1982, with Marco Polo on the front and the doge's palace in Venice on the reverse. the reverse image has been rotated so as it is in the vertical plane.
The other 1000 Lira note is from 1990 and features Maria Montessori, who developed a form of education, and finally the 500 Lira Note from 1974 with Arethusa on the front.
The three notes above are from the second world war era. starting with the 1944, 10 lire (plural of lira) with Jupiter on the front left.The middle one is the 2 Lire note from 1939 and has Julius Caesar on the reverse. finally the One lira note from 1944.
I'm not sure what these are but i imagine they are commercial promissory notes used in the agricultural industry . i have 5 of them from different dates and areas.
