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Extremely Rare Matte Proof 100 Lire

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 1146. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Regno d'Italia. Vittorio Emanuele III. 1900-1946. AV Matte Proof 100 Lire (32.27 g, 6h). Silver Jubilee of Accension and 10th Anniversary of Italy’s Entry in World War I. Dated 1925. VITT • EM • III RE D’ITALIA, head left, set on oak branch encompassed by Lombard crown; 1900 and 1925 flanking / Virtus, holding flying banner in upraised right hand and cupping statue of Victory in right, kneeling left on rock outcropping inscribed with fasces and VETTA/D’ITALIA; A • M •INC • and MISTRVZZI flanking base, 1915 and 1918 flanking rock outcropping; 100 LIRE across field, R in right field. Pagani -; Montenegro 16; cf. Friedberg 32; KM 66. Matte Proof, minor field mark on obverse. Extremely rare.