I'd like to list these three note on Delcampe but I'm not sure what category to place them in. Are they bank notes? checks? private bank issued currency?
thanks in advance!

bonjour alan,

they are called “assegni”, similar to german 'notgeld'. or 'paper coins'. i think we had stuff like this in vietnam, called it MPC (military pay certificates).

amities,
cajunsr.

grazie, cajunsr

I remember travelling in Italy in 1979 and getting candy, stamps or phone tokens as change for small amounts.

These are listed now in the Italy-->bank notes section.

I'd like to list these three note on Delcampe but I'm not sure what category to place them in. Are they bank notes? checks? private bank issued currency?
thanks in advance!

The interesting thing about these is that in theory they are cheques payable to the bearer and authorised to be circulated. The decidedly dubious banknotes issued in Wales were the same, but in the case of Italian (and San Marino!) assegni, there was a genuine shortage of small coins. They don't seem to be very much valued or collected, except the San Marino ones which are the only banknotes from San Marino ever, and so have got a place in volume 1 of the Krause catalogue ("Pick") .

Leach.