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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bart9349, post: 1571161, member: 5682&quot;]One day I&#039;ll write a post on the struggle of Il Risorgimento (Italian unification). For those who know Italian history and culture, Italy is not a unified culture.&nbsp; The Austrian diplomat Klemens von Metternich, the influential diplomat at the Congress of Vienna in 1815 who recreated the European map after the Napoleonic Wars, stated that Italy was nothing more than &quot;a geographic expression.&quot; Even today, most Italians have little sense of a national identity.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are a few coins from the preunification states of Italy:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]214974.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214978.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214979.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214975.vB[/ATTACH][ATTACH]214976.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>guy[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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