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10 Lire - Vittorio Emanuele III Prova
| Issuer | Regio Istituto Zecca (Royal Italian Mint) |
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| Year | 1925 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse lettering | VITTORIO EMANUELE III RE D'ITALIA |
| Reverse description | Central shield-shaped coat of arms of Italian Somaliland, featuring a lion passant above horizontal stripes and two stars at the base, surmounted by a mural crown with battlements. Flanking olive or laurel branches extend from the shield's base. The denomination 'L 10' appears to the lower left and right of the arms, and the date '1925' is inscribed in the exergue. The legend 'SOMALIA ITALIANA' arcs around the upper periphery. |
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The 1925 Italian 10 Lire proof strikes occupy a peculiar administrative moment — Mussolini had consolidated dictatorial power earlier that year following the Matteotti crisis, and the mint was already beginning to reorient its prestige productions toward Fascist iconographic priorities. Prova pieces from this transitional window were struck in extremely limited numbers for official approval, not public release, making survivorship a function of archival luck rather than collector demand.
KM#Pr13 is documented but population data remains thin across major grading services.