100 Lire 'Littore' - Victor Emmanuel III Large issue

The 100 Lire Littore series was issued to commemorate the Fascist regime's proclamation of the Italian Empire following the conquest of Ethiopia in May 1936 — the "Littore" name referencing the fasces-bearing lictor, a deliberate symbol of Mussolini's ideological program rendered in gold. Production was extremely limited; the issue was never intended for general circulation and functioned primarily as a prestige object distributed among officials and foreign dignitaries.

Fr#35 distinguishes this as the larger module, struck the same year as the smaller companion piece under the same KM series umbrella. Surviving examples in original mint state are relatively few given the low mintage of approximately 10,070 pieces.