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10 Lire Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze
| Issuer | Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Printer | Istituto Geografico Militare |
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| Obverse lettering | Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale DI FIRENZE PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA Buono per Lire DIECI valevole solo per i PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA nell'interno del Reparto retroindicato. Istituto geogr. milit., 1917. (Translation: Command of the Territorial Army Corps of Florence, Prisoners of war. Voucher for ten lire, valid only for prisoners of war within the unit indicated on reverse. Military Geographical Institute, 1917) |
| Reverse description | Plain reverse printed in black letterpress on white paper, with large bold text identifying the prisoner-of-war department. A ruled blank line for the unit designation, a dotted box reserved for the official stamp, and a signature line for the commanding officer are the sole design elements. |
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Emergency fiduciary notes issued by Italian military territorial commands during World War One fill a genuinely peculiar corner of Italian monetary history. When small-denomination coinage effectively vanished from circulation after 1915 — hoarded, melted, or simply overwhelmed by wartime demand — local military commands in several cities were authorized to issue their own low-value paper to keep commercial transactions moving. Florence's Corpo d'Armata Territoriale was among those that acted on this authority.
Printed by the Istituto Geografico Militare, which was already housed in Florence and primarily engaged in producing military maps and cartographic materials, rather than banknotes. The institutional mismatch shows in the printing quality relative to contemporary Banca d'Italia output.