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| Issuer | Italy |
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| Year | 1972 |
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| Thickness | 2.1 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | BORMIO ITALIA 72 1 MARENGO |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Additional information |
Bormio, a small Alpine comune in Lombardy, issued this piece in 1972 as a local trade token denominated in Marengi — a unit name deliberately evoking the Marengo gold coinage struck after Napoleon's victory at the Battle of Marengo in 1800. The historical allusion was purely ceremonial; the piece circulated within a narrow regional economy, likely tied to the tourist trade that had grown around Bormio's thermal baths and ski infrastructure in the postwar decades.