Italia 10 Lire (1944)

Obverse: Jupiter

Reverse: Agriculture & Industry (allegorical men)

 

Italia 5 Lire (1944)

Obverse: Roman figure on the left, writing in the center, number on the left

 

Reverse: Denomination in the center

Italy 500 Lire 1919 Series (1941)

The lira (plural lire) was the currency of Italy between 1861 and 2002. The lira was also the currency of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy between 1807 and 1814.

The term originates from the value of a pound weight (Latin: libra) of high purity silver and as such is a direct cognate of the British pound sterling; in some countries, such as Cyprus and Malta, the words lira and pound were used as equivalents, before the euro was adopted in 2008 in the two countries. "L", sometimes in a double-crossed script form ("₤"), was usually used as the symbol. Until the Second World War, it was subdivided into 100 centesimi (singular: centesimo), which translates to "one hundredth".

 Obverse: The copperplate figure of a harvest woman seated on the wheat-sheaves holding a sheaf in her left hand and a sickle in the right; a watermark head of Leonardo da Vinci in the medallion to the left

 

Reverse: Cantalamessa's statuary group with the personifications of Law, Finance and Economy in the center circle; the circle to the left contains the coat of arms of the House of Savoy sustained by a crowned golden eagle; a watermark head of Leonardo da Vinci to the right

Italy 5,000 Lire (1979)

Obverse: "Portrait of a Man" by Antonello da Messina, National Gallery, London; fixed-point watermark showing the same portrait

Reverse: Architectonic elements

Italy 1,000 Lire (1990)

Obverse: Portrait of Maria Montessori in her later years

Reverse: A boy and girl doing schoolwork, taken from the painting "Bambini allo Studio" by Armando Spadini (1883-1925)

The fixed-point watermark consists of a chiaroscuro reproduction of the portrait of Montessori and immediately below it, in ligne claire, the "BI" monogram between ornamental motifs.

Italy 1,000 Lire (1982)

Front: Marco Polo; an ornamental background motif reproducing a 15th-century Venetian tapestry design, with foliage, birds and dragons

Back: Dodge's Palace in Venice (Venezia)

 

The fixed-point watermark on the left consists of three elements: on the left, the same head of Marco Polo; immediately below it, in ligne claire, the "BI" monogram between ornamental motifs; to the right, chiaroscuro reproductions of five trapezoidal figures with the smaller base upwards, irregularly spaced along a horizontal line.