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| Italy 10000 Lire 1962-1973 |
| Item Code: IT-97 |
| Front: Bust portrait of Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet and engineer Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo; Head of Medusa* (Caput medusae). Back: Piazza del Campidoglio, by Michelangelo, on the top of Capitoline Hill, with the fa�ade of Palazzo Senatorio in Rome. Watermark: Head of David, sculpted by Michelangelo. Drawing: Florenzo Masino Bessi. Etching: Mario Bairdi (front); Trento Cionini (back). Print: Copperplate and dry offset. Printer: Officina della Banca d'Italia. |
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| Dimensions: 158 x 78 mm |
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| Texts: Banca d'Italia; Lire Diecimila pagabili a vista al portatore; La legge punisce fabbricatori e gli spacciatori di biglietti falsi. Ten Thousand Lire. |
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| * In Greek mythology, Medusa was a monstrous chthonic female character; gazing upon her could turn onlookers to stone. She was beheaded by the human hero Perseus, who thereafter used her head as a weapon until giving it to the goddess Athena to place on her shield. |
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