What happens when organizing shelves in your office and rediscover Italian-immigrant-mother-in-law’s scrapbook with five lire fascist era banknote in small while envelope saved as memento when she left Italy in 1946 as war bride. Front of banknote is Savoy King Victor Emmanuel III.
Back of banknote is not a photo of the dictator Mussolini but of the Roman Imperial Eagle with talons gripping a “fascia” to show the power of the regime, and date (XVII),”Era Fascista” to demarcate Mussolini control of Italy.
We’ll see if our fascist in power now begins to issue new currency and renumber the years from 10 January 2025. Hmm, how will he handle 2017-2021?
More discussion at I Like To Hear Myself Talk History blog.