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10 Lire - Vittorio Emanuele III Prova di stampa
| Issuer | Italian Somaliland |
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| Year | 1925 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing draped and crowned effigy of King Vittorio Emanuele III, wearing royal robes, rendered in high relief with fine sculptural detail. The legend encircles the bust along the upper periphery, while the engraver's signature A·MOTTI appears along the lower truncation of the bust. The mintmark R, denoting the Rome Mint, is situated below the signature in the lower field. |
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| Mint | R Rome, Italy (476-date) |
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Italian Somaliland's coinage was administered through the Regia Zecca in Rome, and proof or pattern strikes ("prove di stampa") from this colonial series were produced in strictly limited numbers for archival and approval purposes — not for any circulation intent. The 1925 issue for Somaliland coincides with the early consolidation of Italian colonial monetary policy under Fascist administration, when Rome was actively standardizing currency systems across its African territories.
KM#Pr14 is among the rarer pattern designations in the Italian colonial sequence. Fewer than a handful of institutions hold confirmed examples.