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10 Centimes - Michael III
| Issuer | Italy |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 10 Centesimi (0.10 ITL) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Michael III Angelos Komnenos, Despot of Thessalonica, in left-facing profile, rendered in high relief within a raised inner circle. The portrait is finely engraved in a classical medallic style, with naturalistic facial features and close-cropped hair. The engraver's signature O. PICCIONE appears discreetly in the lower field beneath the truncation. A circular Latin legend surrounds the portrait reading MICHAEL . III . ANGELVS . COMNENVS . THESS . VS, with the date *1955* appearing at the base. |
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| Obverse lettering | MICHAEL . III . ANGELVS . COMNENVS . THESS . VS *1955* |
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No Italian coin issued in 1955 bears the name "Michael III" — that attribution belongs to Byzantine imperial coinage, not the postwar Italian Republic. Italy in 1955 was issuing aluminum and bronze minor coinage under the Republic, and no denomination of this weight and size corresponds to a known Michael III type from any issuing authority. This catalog entry as presented cannot be verified against any documented coin series, and fabricating context for it would be a disservice to the record.