Genoese lira di banco
Genoa’s banco lira developed a distinct standard when bank valuations stayed fixed while outside-bank legal valuations changed.
- Where
- Genoa, San Giorgio banking accounts
- Earlier account use
- Banco ledgers from 1675
- Documented divergence
- 1 July 1741
- Predecessor tradition
- Genoese commercial lira; qualified institutional branch
- Ancestry branch
- Roman solidus
Sources for the facts [1]
Its place in the family
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No successor is established here.
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Genoese lira di banco
Genoese lira
Frankish denier–livre
Roman solidus–nomisma
Roman as–denarius accounting
Earlier ancestry is not established here.
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The story
Banco ledgers opened in 1675 with the commercial lira’s legal valuation. The outside-bank tariff changed in 1741 while banco kept the older values. This supports an institutional branch from the older commercial account tradition. [1]
The shared initial valuation was not a permanent one-to-one peg. The 1675–1741 interval describes institutional use followed by legal divergence, rather than a single established founding day. [1]
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“Genoese lira di banco.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/CUR-V26-GENOA-BANCO.html