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10 Lire - Victor Emmanuel III
| Issuer | Italian Somaliland |
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| Year | 1925 |
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| Engraver(s) | Attilio Silvio Motti |
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| Reverse lettering | SOMALIA ITALIANA L. 10 1925 (Translation: Italian Somalia L. 10 1925) |
| Edge | Reeded |
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Italian Somaliland issued its own coinage only briefly, and the 1925 10 Lire was part of a small series authorized under the colonial administration as Mogadishu developed into a functional administrative center. The series was struck at Rome and saw limited circulation in a territory where barter and Maria Theresa Thalers had long dominated local exchange.
KM#8 is genuinely scarce in any grade — total mintage figures were low even by colonial issue standards, and attrition in a coastal tropical environment was brutal on silver.