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10 Lire Italian occupation

Issuer Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per il Sudan
Year 1940
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Reference(s) P#M6
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Obverse lettering CASSA MEDITERRANEA DI CREDITO PER IL SVDAN
صندوق البحر المتوسط التسليفي للسودان
BVONO PER
Dieci
LIRE EG.
هذا السند يسوى عشرة مليمات مصرية
IL PRESENTE BVONO DEVE ESSERE ACCETTATO IN PAGAMENTO PER IL SVO VALORE NOMINALE
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Reverse lettering CASSA MEDITERRANEA DI CREDITO PER IL SVDAN
صندوق البحر المتوسط التسليفي للسودان
BVONO PER
Dieci
LIRE EG.
هذا السند يسوى عشرة مليمات مصرية
IL PRESENTE BVONO DEVE ESSERE ACCETTATO IN PAGAMENTO PER IL SVO VALORE NOMINALE
10 LIRE EG.
١٠ مليمات مصرية
0000
000.000
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The Cassa Mediterranea di Credito was not a bank in any conventional sense — it was a purpose-built occupation finance mechanism, deployed by Italy to manage currency in conquered territories without formally integrating them into the lira zone. The Sudan series was prepared in 1940 following Italy's push into British-held East Africa, anticipating administrative control that never solidified. Notes were printed and held ready; actual circulation was limited and geographically patchy.

The printer, IPZS, was the Italian state's own production house — no outsourcing, no commercial security printers. That institutional chain matters: these notes were a government-to-government instrument from the start, not a commercial banking product dressed in colonial clothing.

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