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| 500 Italian lire |
Currency of Italy - 500 Lire banknote of 1935, Bank of Italy, Banca d'Italia.
Obverse: The drawing consists of a grey frame enclosing a straight festoon formed by yellowish sheaves, bound with pinkish ribbons knotted at the ends. At the centre is an elliptical festoon of pomegranates and leaves, broken into at the left by the circle containing the watermark and at the right by 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.
Reverse: Inside a large cornice there are three circular spaces. The centre one, the largest, encircled by a laurel wreath, contains black-coloured reproductions of one of Cantalamessa's statuary groups, with the personifications of Law, Finance and Economy. The circle to the left contains the coat of arms of the House of Savoy sustained by a crowned gold