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10 Lire Italian occupation WWII
| Issuer | Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per l'Egitto |
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| Year | 1942 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Portrait of Emperor Augustus (Octavian) in classical Roman military dress within an ornate oval frame at left, rendered in intaglio. Central field carries the cursive script denomination "Dieci" with the legend "BUONO PER" above and "LIRE EG." below, flanked by an elaborate rococo cartouche at right intended for a control stamp. Bilingual inscriptions in Italian and Arabic appear at top reading "CASSA MEDITERRANEA DI CREDITO PER L'EGITTO / صندوق البحر المتوسط التسليفي لمصر", with additional Arabic text at lower center. |
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| Reverse lettering | CASSA MEDITERRANEA DI CREDITO PER L'EGITTO صندوق البحر المتوسط التسليفي لمصر BUONO PER Dieci LIRE EG. 10 جنيهات مصرية 0000 000.000 IL PRESENTE BUONO NON SARA ACCETTATO IN PAGAMENTO PER IL SUO VALORE NOMINALE |
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The Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per l'Egitto was a purpose-built instrument of Italian colonial finance, established to provide occupation currency for use in Egypt following Graziani's advance into the Western Desert. These notes were printed in Rome and stockpiled in anticipation of a conquest that never fully materialized — Rommel's inability to take Alexandria meant the Egyptian series saw negligible actual circulation in Egypt itself.
Most of the stock was redirected for use in Libya and other Italian-controlled territories, or simply remained unissued. The 1942 date places production squarely in the period of maximum Axis pressure on the North African front, just before El Alamein foreclosed any realistic prospect of an Egyptian occupation.