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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1457759, member: 39&quot;]From what I have read, many such pieces - also with other &quot;historical figures&quot; - were offered in Italy, and mostly sold to tourists. This one is even listed in Krause&#039;s Unusual Coins catalog, see <a href="http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=136853&amp;worldcoinid=339918" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=136853&amp;worldcoinid=339918" rel="nofollow">http://www.ngccoin.com/poplookup/WorldCoinPrices.aspx?category=136853&amp;worldcoinid=339918</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As for why anybody would buy such a thing, in my opinion there are collectors (mostly but not only from the US) who would really badly want to have such pieces. Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin for example never appeared on coins from their countries, so the second best option is such a medal. And maybe there was or is domestic demand too; Mussolini was a dictator but different from, say, Hitler in many regards. So there are some people who, while they would not want his regime to come back, may be interested in such a memento of &quot;grandezza&quot; ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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