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10 Lire Italian occupation
| Issuer | Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per il Sudan |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Reverse description | The central panel is filled with a dense arabesque guilloche pattern, at the centre of which the denomination "Dieci" in italic script appears above "LIRE EG.". The numeral 10 occupies all four corners alongside its Arabic equivalent, while zeroed serial number placeholders (0000 and 000.000) printed in red at left and right confirm the trial status of the note; bilingual Italian and Arabic text repeating the legal tender clause runs within a foliate outer border. |
| 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.