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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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| Reverse description | Buff-toned reverse enclosed within the same rope-twist and geometric border as the obverse. A large bold numeral 10 is centrally placed over a fine radiating guilloche underprint. Series letters UT and A appear in the upper left and upper right corners respectively, while the printer's imprint Smolars 1/3 is inscribed in small type at the lower left. |
| Reverse lettering | UT A 10 Smolars 1/3 |
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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.