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1 Lira Italian occupation WWII
| Issuer | Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per l'Egitto |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Size | 198 × 92 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | CASSA MEDITERRANEA DI CREDITO PER L'EGITTO صندوق البحر المتوسط التسليفي لمصر BUONO PER Una LIRA EG. هذا السند يسوى منها مصريا واحدا IL PRESENTE BUONO DEVE ESSERE ACCETTATO IN PAGAMENTO PER IL SUO VALORE NOMINALE |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in olive-green on a light ground, with a broad central panel carrying an intricate geometric and arabesque guilloche underprint. The bilingual issuer name and denomination legend appear centrally, with the denomination numeral '1' repeated in each of the four corners alongside the Arabic and Italian currency designations. Printed serial number placeholders appear at left and right in red, flanking the central text block. |
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The Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per l'Egitto was a purpose-built occupation currency authority, established by Italian military administrators to manage monetary affairs in territories they expected to hold permanently. This note was printed in Rome in anticipation of a conquest that never fully materialized — Rommel's push toward Alexandria stalled at El Alamein in 1942, and the occupation currency series for Egypt saw almost no genuine field circulation before the North African campaign collapsed.
The entire M-series for Egypt is consequently scarce in circulated grades, not because notes were preserved carefully, but because most never left military supply channels.