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5 Lire Italian occupation
| Issuer | Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per il Sudan |
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| Year | 1940 |
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| Reference(s) | P#M5 |
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| Obverse lettering | CASSA MEDITERRANEA DI CREDITO PER IL SVDAN صندوق البحر المتوسط التسليفي للسودان BVONO PER Cinque LIRE EG. IL PRESENTE BVONO DEVE ESSERE ACCETTATO IN PAGAMENTO PER IL SVO VALORE NOMINALE |
| Reverse description | Central vignette panel with the issuer's title in Italian and Arabic scripts above the denomination in large italic lettering, all within an intricate guilloche-patterned border. Placeholder serial numbers printed in red appear at left and right margins, confirming the trial status of the note. Corner value numerals and denomination labels in both Italian and Arabic are repeated at each corner. |
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The Cassa Mediterranea di Credito was a financial instrument of Italian colonial ambition — a parallel banking structure established to issue occupation currency in conquered territories without formally integrating them into the metropolitan monetary system. This Sudan series was prepared in 1940 following Italy's entry into the war and the subsequent offensive into British-held East Africa, when Mussolini's forces briefly overran significant portions of Sudan before the campaign collapsed in 1941.
The occupation lasted less than a year. Notes from this series saw extremely limited genuine circulation, and many examples survive in high grade precisely because the military situation reversed before full distribution occurred.