ITALIAN STATES

1848 LOMBARDY PROVISIONAL GOVERMENT 5 LIRE 

MINTED ONLY ONE YEAR

Silver             :    0.900

Weight         :    25 gr

Diameter     :    37 mm

Thickness   :    3 mm

References :   C# 22

Obverse       :  Portrait of a female with scepter to right. Lettering: ITALIA LIBERA DIO LO VUOLE  M

Reverse        : 5 LIRE ITALIANE 1848 Lettering: GOVERNO PROVVISORIO DI LOMBARDIA

Mint                : M Milan

Condition       : Excellent detail both sides, beautiful patina, XF. Please, judge for yourself; the coin pictured is the same auctioned.

After a popular revolution on 22 March 1848, known as the "Five Days of Milan", the Austrians fled from Milan, which became the capital city of a Governo Provisorio della Lombardia (Lombardy Provisional Government).

The Austrian forces under Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky, after defeating the Sardinian troops at the Battle of Custoza (24–25 July 1848), entered Milan (6 August) and Venice (24 August 1849) and once again restored Austrian rule under Emperor Franz Joseph I.

This coin was one year issued by the Provisional Government of Lombardy during this short period .

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