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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Billy Kingsley, post: 765953, member: 19456&quot;]Love seeing these coins. Although my heritage is many things, I most closely associate with the Italian side of my family. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I have a comparitivly small handfull of Italian coins compared to England and Germany, two other places my roots trace back to, but here are some scans from my collection...</p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1565/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy1867liraa-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images50.fotki.com/v1569/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy1867lirab-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v1547/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy191920centisimia-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images50.fotki.com/v1570/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy191920centisimib-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I am normally a fan of Aluminum coins, but these aluminum Italian coins sure have taken a beating before I got them, all of which came from bulk bins or lots</p><p><img src="http://images112.fotki.com/v1532/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy195210liraa-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images49.fotki.com/v394/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy195210lira-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1554/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy19535liraa-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1551/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy19535lirab-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images50.fotki.com/v1558/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy195610liraa-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images50.fotki.com/v1558/photos/4/348354/7792877/Italy195610lirab-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Brass or brass colored coins just don&#039;t scan well...sorry about that!</p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v1561/photos/4/348354/7792877/ly1993MilitaryAviation200lirea-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v1561/photos/4/348354/7792877/ly1993MilitaryAviation200lireb-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>But long before Italy unified, there was the age of Rome...</p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v1561/photos/4/348354/7792846/Rome324325a-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images52.fotki.com/v1566/photos/4/348354/7792846/Rome324325b-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="http://images51.fotki.com/v1549/photos/4/348354/7792846/Rome267a-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="http://images50.fotki.com/v1571/photos/4/348354/7792846/Rome267b-vi.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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