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1 Centesimo - Victor Emmanuel III
| Issuer | Kingdom of Italy |
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| Year | 1902-1908 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | VITTORIO EMANUELE III RE D'ITALIA S. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Italy's centesimo denominations from this period were produced under the early reforms of Victor Emmanuel III, who ascended the throne in 1900 following the assassination of his father Umberto I at Monza. The copper one-centesimo had negligible purchasing power even at issue — by the early 1900s a single lira bought dozens of such coins' worth of bread — yet the denomination persisted for accounting purposes in a decimal system Italians had inherited from the Napoleonic reorganization of 1803.
The series ran only six years before production ceased, with 1908 being the final year of the KM#35 type.