Catalog
25 Centesimi Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze
| Issuer | Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale DI FIRENZE PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA Buono per Cent. Venticinque valevole solo per i PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA nell'interno del Reparto retroindicato. Istituto geogr. milit., 1917. (Translation: Command of the Territorial Army Corps of Florence, Prisoners of war. Voucher for twenty-five centesimi, valid only for prisoners of war within the unit indicated on reverse. Military Geographical Institute, 1917) |
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| Reverse lettering | REPARTO DEI PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA di ____ Il Comandante del Reparto Bollo d' Ufficio (Translation: Prisoner of War Department of ___ Official stamp. The Commanding Officer of the department.) |
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One of dozens of emergency fractional notes issued by Italian military territorial commands during the First World War, when the withdrawal of small-denomination coins from circulation created an acute shortage of everyday change. The Territorial Army Corps Command in Florence — a regional administrative military authority rather than a combat formation — was among the commands authorized to issue these notes locally. The Istituto Geografico Militare, Florence's military mapping and printing institution, produced the series, which kept the work entirely within the city.
These military command notes occupy an odd category: neither strictly military scrip nor civilian emergency currency, they circulated among the general population by necessity.