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5 Lire Italian occupation
| Issuer | Cassa Mediterranea di Credito per il Sudan |
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| Year | 1940 |
| Type | Pattern or trial banknote |
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| Obverse description | Intaglio vignette at left centre of a bust of Emperor Augustus in classical armour, set within an ornate cartouche with guilloche borders. The issuer's name appears in both Italian and Arabic scripts across the upper portion of the note, with the denomination rendered in large italic script. An elaborate decorative frame at right remains blank, typical of an unissued trial piece. |
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| Reverse 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 0000 000.000 |
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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.