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.
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.