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5 Centesimi - Victor Emmanuel III
| Issuer | Italian State Mint (Zecca dello Stato) |
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| Year | 1919-1937 |
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| Weight | 3.25 g |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of King Victor Emmanuel III facing left, rendered in high relief with finely detailed hair and strong facial features in a naturalistic portrait style. The truncation of the neck is plain and unadorned. A circular legend surrounds the effigy along the rim, reading VITTORIO EMANVELE III RE D'ITALIA, with the engraver's signature A. MOTTI incused below the bust truncation. |
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| Obverse lettering | VITTORIO EMANVELE III RE D'ITALIA A.MOTTI (Translation: Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy A.Motti) |
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This long-running copper issue owes its existence to a 1918 monetary reform that finally addressed Italy's wartime small-change famine — troops and civilians alike had resorted to stamped cardboard tokens and private scrip during the conflict. The series ran through 1937 with only minor interruptions, and later dates were struck well into the Fascist period under Mussolini's government, though the coin retained its Savoy dynastic iconography throughout.
Rome was the sole mint for this denomination across the entire run. Examples from the early 1920s tend to see heavier wear simply because postwar demand for low-denomination coinage was acute.