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25 Centesimi Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze

Issuer Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze
Year 1917
Type Vouchers
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Reverse description Plain cream paper printed in black letterpress; a ruled rectangular box at lower left serves as the official stamp (Bollo d'Ufficio) field, with a blank line for the unit designation and a space for the Commanding Officer's signature at right.
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.

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