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50 Lire - Vittorio Emanuele III Pattern
| Issuer | Italy |
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| Year | 1907 |
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| Weight | 16.2 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A seminude allegorical female figure personifying Italy is seated facing left in a relaxed pose, her head crowned with wheat ears and her body partially draped. She leans against a tree trunk to the right while sheaves of wheat are arranged in the central field before her. In the left background, a detailed seascape depicts sailing ships and a steamship, symbolizing Italian maritime commerce. The denomination 'LIRE 50' appears in a central tablet in the lower field, flanked by two small decorative putti, with 'PROVA' (proof/pattern) and the date '1907' inscribed along the lower exergue, and the engraver's initials 'S.J.' (Stefano Johnson) to the right. The arc legend 'REGNO D'ITALIA' runs along the upper periphery within a beaded border. |
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Italy's 1907 gold coinage program was caught between competing reform pressures — the Latin Monetary Union's constraints on member-state denominations and domestic calls to rationalize a circulation system still cluttered with pre-unification survivals. This 50 Lire pattern was struck at Rome as part of that evaluation process, never advancing to regular issue. The Pagani reference places it among a small cohort of Piastrino-weight patterns from the same period, most surviving in handful quantities across institutional and private collections.