1798 ITALIAN STATES - PRIMA REPUBBLICA ROMANA 50 BOCCHI BANK NOTE
MONTE DI PIETA'
THE FIRST ROMAN REPUBLIC (1798 - 1799) WAS THE SISTER REPUBLIC TO THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. THE ARMY OF NAPOLEON UNDER GENERAL BERTHIER SIEZED ROME WHICH BEGAN THE PERIOD OF FRENCH OCCUPATION
THE PRO-JACOBIN "ROMAN"Â REPUBLICANÂ GOVERNMENT SUSPENDED THE TEMPORAL POWER OF THE POPE OVER THE PAPAL STATES AND ACTING AS A FRENCH PUPPET LEVIED HEAVY TAXATION ON THE ROMANS
THIS CALAMITY OF THIS PERIOD WAS ENHANCED BY A PERIOD OF HYPER-INFLATION AND THE ASSEGNATI (WHICH MEANS "ISSUED")Â PRINTED BY THE ROMAN BANKS WERE PRACTICALLY WORTHLESS
THE CHECKS ISSUED BY THE ROMAN REPUBLIC WERE BASED PRIMARILY ON THE PAUL (PAOLI)Â (ALSO KNOWN AS THE JULIO), A DENOMINATION OF THE FORMER PAPAL STATES
AFTER AN INVASION BY THE KING OF NAPLES WITH SUPPORT BY ADMIRAL LORD NELSON AND HIS FLEET, THE PAPAL STATES WERE RESTORED IN 1799, ONLY TO BE INVADED AGAIN BY THE FRENCH IN 1808 WHEN THEY BECAME PART OF THE NAPOLEONIC EMPIRE UNTIL ITS COLLAPSE IN 1814
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