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5 Lire Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze
| Issuer | Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale di Firenze |
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| Year | 1917 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | Comando del Corpo d'Armata Territoriale DI FIRENZE PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA Buono per Lire CINQUE valevole solo per i PRIGIONIERI DI GUERRA nell'interno del Reparto retroindicato. Istituto geogr. milit., 1917. (Translation: Command of the Territorial Army Corps of Florence, Prisoners of war. Voucher for five lire, valid only for prisoners of war within the unit indicated on reverse. Military Geographical Institute, 1917) |
| Reverse description | Plain typographic layout printed in black on cream paper, with a dotted rectangular box at lower left reserved for an official stamp. A blank line follows "di" for handwritten completion of the prisoner of war department name, with space at right for the commanding officer's signature. |
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Emergency fiduciary notes issued by Italian territorial army commands in 1917 were a direct response to a nationwide small-denomination coin shortage that had grown acute by mid-war. The Comando di Firenze was one of several regional military authorities authorized to issue their own emergency currency — legal within a defined geographic and administrative zone, and technically redeemable by the issuing command rather than the Banca d'Italia.
Printing at the Istituto Geografico Militare made logistical sense: the IGM was already Florence's primary state cartographic and security printing facility, equipped for precision work. These notes circulated locally and were subject to recall once the coin shortage eased, which is why surviving examples in any condition are genuinely uncommon.