Hand signed with red felt-tip pen by Andy Warhol on a real 10.000 lire note, edition 1984. Numbered and embossed and ink stamp © Andy Warhol. Hologram 'verification of authenticity' on the back. 13,3 x 7,0 cm. With certificate from 'The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts'. The Warhol Lira banknotes are rarer than the dollar bills. All banknotes were in circulation, as the artist wanted. Andy Warhol spent 2 years in Italy with Lucio Amelio, Andy Warhol's art dealer, where the banknotes were also produced at that time. Description of the front: security background composed of guilloche shapes with a representation in the center of a Volta stack. On the right, the portrait of the physicist and chemist Alessendro Volta (1745-1827). The banknote number is repeated twice in black at the bottom. In the center left in blue, the seal of the four Maritime Republics (Amalfi, Genoa, Pisa and Venice). Description of the back: a view of the Voltiano temple of Como on a background of guilloche forms.