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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ian, post: 51486, member: 283&quot;]I think this is may well be yet another case of `updateitis&#039; Doug. Who knows.</p><p><br /></p><p>My Krause is the 1999 edition, and it states for the 2O Lire silver piece:-</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot; Note: Similar 20 and 100 lire pieces struck in gold, silver and silvered brass are modern fantasies. Refer to UNUSUAL WORLD COINS, 3rd Editon, Krause Publications, 1992.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>My copy of&nbsp; Unusual World Coins sadly is the first edition (1987) but it still lists the `piece&#039;, and as follows:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The following listings are all considered fantasy types......</p><p><br /></p><p>Vittorio Emmanuel III - 100 Lire....(etcetera)&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Both books are by Krause publications, Colin Bruce being one of KM&#039;s SCWC senior editors, and both books state clearly that the 100 Lire is considered a modern fantasy piece.&nbsp; My copy of KM&#039;s SCWC&nbsp; doesn&#039;t list a 100 lire of that type. </p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t see a piece that has for years been considered to be a modern fantasy all of a sudden been&nbsp; transitioned into a `bona fide&#039;. Not impossible by any means, but that&#039;s like the Italian mint having suddenly confessed to having minted these pieces in the first place (and hoarding them too?) ...... I guess stranger things have happened, but if so, I didn&#039;t hear or read the confession anywhere.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>If the piece is gold, then I suspect that it may very well be Bruce X1 (or whatever reference it has in the most up to date `Unusual World Coins&#039;) especially if the weight has been reported accurately, and the dimensions are right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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