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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lettow, post: 342927, member: 6986&quot;]These notes are referred to as mini-assegni (mini-checks in Italian).&nbsp; There are hundreds of varieties and they are collected by currency collectors.&nbsp; Banks in Italy and Albania also issued circulating checks at the end of WWII.&nbsp; These are relatively scarce and are eagerly sought by Italian collectors.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The mini-assegni are also an emergency currency.&nbsp; They were issued due to a lack of circulating small change in Italy during the mid-1970s.&nbsp; The coinage disappeared because its metal value exceeded its face value and it was melted.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the Philippine guerrilla currency also takes the form of circulating checks.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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