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10 Centesimi Prova
| Issuer | Italian Somaliland |
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| Year | 1950 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Arabic |
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The 1950 Italian Somaliland proof issues were struck in anticipation of the territory's transition under Italian trusteeship — a ten-year United Nations mandate that began that same year, with full independence targeted for 1960. Italy had lost its East African colonies after World War II, and the trusteeship arrangement was a carefully negotiated compromise, making these pattern pieces effectively the first coinage produced for a reconstituted administration rather than a colonial one.
KM#Pr3 is a pattern, not a circulation strike. The brass composition was apparently not adopted for the final issue.