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Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 4:45 pm can you tell me what this is and the value? Report this Post to the Staff

alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 5:15 pm 1848, the year of revolution in Europe, certainly in Italy. The reverse has elements of a 5 lire of the Provisional Government of Lombardy. Maybe it's some kind of revolutionary scrip; more likely a fantasy coin. There appear to be some about which ape this period. Edited by alganbagerap 02/09/2010 5:16 pm Report this Post to the Staff
Adam_E Pillar of the Community United States 4846 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 5:17 pm soo no value? Report this Post to the Staff
alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 6:24 pm Quite likely somebody out there wants this.. It's a known piece and there is one on numismatica-italiana. Annoyingly they don't give a price but do say that it weighs less than the real thing and was probably not made to pass for real, but for some other unknown purpose. Try googling: numismatica-italina 5 lire 1848. Sorry, it's only in Italian Report this Post to the Staff
alganbagerap Pillar of the Community United Kingdom 2490 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 6:32 pm And the numismatica-italiana reference is: W-M148/0-F-2 Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16851 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 6:35 pm Not much value, anyway. It's in imitation, probably made no earlier than the 1960s; the design is loosely based on a Lombardy-Venetia 5 lire silver coin, KM/C# 22, but the legends are garbled nonsense. Click on this CoinArchives link before it expires to see what it's supposed to look like. This old thread has another just like yours; someone there suggested it may have been a newspaper giveaway item; I think it might be just a tourist souvenir. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
gawd0wns Valued Member Canada 464 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 6:37 pm Here is a link: http://numismatica-italiana.lamonet.../0?mylang=en Report this Post to the Staff
biokemist6 Bedrock of the Community United States 12437 Posts	Posted 02/09/2010 9:13 pm Quote: the design is loosely based on a Lombardy-Venetia 5 lire silver coin, KM/C# 22, but the legends are garbled nonsense. LOL, I was wondering if that was the case. I was sitting there trying to decipher that thing this afternoon and all I could think of was "what kind of bizzaro language is that?" Report this Post to the Staff
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