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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;princeofwaldo, post: 1568654, member: 24091&quot;]World War One went very badly for the Italians.&nbsp; Unlike WW-2, Italy was an American/French/British ally fighting against the Germans and Austrians.&nbsp; 95 years ago this week, the Battle of Caporetto cost the Italian army over 300,000 soldiers.&nbsp; In all, 650,000 soldiers were killed out-right in the war.&nbsp; And yet as bad as the war was for Italy, the mintage on most silver coins from the era are strong through 1917, with a complete halt in silver coinage from then until the reintroduction of silver coinage in 1926 with the new reduced weight 5 Lire (which weighed 5 grams).&nbsp; The 1917 Lira is very common, even in mint state.&nbsp; The 2 Lire coins are also fairly common up to MS62 and then become somewhat scarce in the higher grades.&nbsp; The 1917 Italian 2 Lire (unlike the Lira) is a better date, and so far I have not found a nice one that didn&#039;t have ugly tone.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]214346.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214349.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214353.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214354.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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