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10 Centesimi Comune di Trieste
| Issuer | Comune di Trieste |
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| Year | 1945-1947 |
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| Currency | Lira (1861-2001) |
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| Obverse description | Plain buff-toned note enclosed within a decorative rope-twist and geometric border. The issuer's name COMUNE DI TRIESTE appears across the upper field in serif capitals, with the denomination BUONO DA 10 CENTESIMI in large bold letterpress type occupying the centre. To the right, a circular municipal seal of Trieste displays the city's castle emblem surrounded by a Latin legend, rendered in fine line engraving against a radiating sunburst underprint. |
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| Obverse lettering | COMUNE DI TRIESTE BUONO DA 10 CENTESIMI |
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Trieste's postwar municipal scrip occupies an awkward historical moment: the city was under Allied Military Government from May 1945, disputed between Italy and Yugoslavia, and would not be formally resolved until the 1954 London Memorandum. The Comune issued these small-denomination notes because fractional coinage had effectively vanished from circulation — hoarded, melted, or simply absent after years of wartime disruption.
Local printing meant variable quality across the run. Ink consistency and paper stock both fluctuate noticeably between surviving examples.