1 Marengo Sirmione

The Marengo Sirmione was a privately issued trade token produced by the Stabilimento Idrotermale di Sirmione, a spa resort on Lake Garda, circulating as a local medium of exchange within the establishment's facilities during a period when Italian small-denomination coinage was notoriously scarce. Italy's chronic coin shortage of the 1970s drove businesses across the country to issue their own substitute currency — telephone tokens, candy, and proprietary metal pieces all served where lire could not.

The name references the Marengo, the old Napoleonic-era gold coin, though this piece carries no official monetary status whatsoever.