20 lire benito mussolini biography

By Blaine Taylor

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Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on

Bosworth, Richard J. B.. "Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on". Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships, edited by Andrea Di Michele and Filippo Focardi, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022, pp. 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007

Bosworth, R. (2022). Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on. In A. Di Michele & F. Focardi (Ed.), Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships (pp. 107-126). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007

Bosworth, R. 2022. Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on. In: Di Michele, A. and Focardi, F. ed. Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 107-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007

Bosworth, Richard J. B.. "Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on" In Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships edited by Andrea Di Michele and Filippo Focardi, 107-126. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007

Bosworth R. Benito Mussolini: 100 Years on. In: Di Michele A, Focardi F (ed.) Rethinking Fascism: The Italian and German Dictatorships. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg; 2022. p.107-126. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110768619-007

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coins of the month - june 2018

Fascist coinage: between financial stabilization and propaganda

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When Benito Mussolini and the Fascist National Party seized power after an armed march on Rome in October 1922, the Italian financial situation was already stabilizing but postwar monetary troubles had not finished. The lira had become an inconvertible paper currency since the beginning of World War I and had lost about 80% of its prewar gold value, a fate shared in  different degrees by all its partners in the Latin Monetary Union (LMU), except for Switzerland which had remained neutral and then left the LMU in 1920. Inflation, caused by the monetary financing of three years of war, had already contributed to ruining the middle class and leading a substantial part of it to support the fascists’ violent rise to power.
Recognising the impossibility of issuing silver full weight pieces while the value of the currency was so low, the pre-fascist government had started issuing a small denomination parallel coinage in 1922, in nickel instead of silver, outside the rules of the LMU, as the French and the Belgians did as well. In Italy they were called buoni, good for one lira, and represented an ornate classical allegory