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5 Centesimi - Francis Joseph I
| Issuer | Lombardy-Venetia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1849-1850 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | REGNO LOMBARDO VENETO M (Translation: Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, M = Milan mint) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lombardy-Venetia's copper coinage of 1849–1850 was struck in the immediate aftermath of the Five Days of Milan and the failed revolutions of 1848, as Austrian imperial authority reasserted itself across northern Italy. The timing was deliberate — reissuing Francis Joseph's coinage in a newly suppressed territory carried an unmistakable political message. Radetzky's army had only retaken Milan in August 1848.
The Milan mint, which produced these pieces, had itself been briefly under revolutionary control during the uprising.