- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | DB01-0121 |
| Description: | 20 Centesimi |
| Country or State: | Kingdom of Italy (17 March 1861 - 18 June 1946) |
| Year: | 1940 - Yr. XVIII |
| Head of State/Ruler: | Vittorio Emanuele III (Full Name: Vittorio Emanuele Ferdinando Maria Gennaro di Savoia) |
| Reign: | 29 July 1900 – 9 May 1946 (45 years, 284 days) |
| Currency: | Lira (1861-2001) |
| Obverse: | Head of King Vittorio Emanuele III facing left and the name of the engraver below the neck |
| Obverse Legend: | VITT·EM·III· RE·E·IMP·, G.ROMAGNOLI |
| Reverse: | Head of a woman (representing Italy) with a fasces at left, in front of her hairs. Fasces is adorned with the Savoy shield and with an axe at left and the value below between dates and mintmark |
| Reverse Legend: | ITALIA, R, XVIII, 1940, C.20 |
| Edge: | Reeded |
| Designer: | Giuseppe Romagnoli |
| Engraver: | Pietro Giampaoli |
| Orientation: | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
| Mint Mark: | R (Rome) |
| Composition: | Acmonital-Nickel (Ac-Ni), Non-Magnetic |
| Diameter: | 21.8 mm |
| Thickness: | 1.65 mm |
| Weight: | 4.040 grams |
| Mintage: | 35,350,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 75d, Gigante: 220; Pagani: 858 |
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Victor Emmanuel III was a member of the House of Savoy and King of Italy. In addition, he claimed the thrones of Ethiopia and Albania as Emperor of Ethiopia and King of the Albanians, which were unrecognised by the Great Powers. During his long reign, the Kingdom of Italy became involved in two World Wars. His reign also encompassed the birth, rise, and fall of Italian Fascism. |