Italy Republic 50 Lire 1956r EF+ (Mint lustre)

Excellent stainless coin struck within a large set from 1950 to 1989. All the group was coined at Rome Mint. After the fall of Rome until modern times, the Italian Country was situated on the back ground, and divided in independent small states. However, the unification movement fostered by some royalists attained the creation of the Kingdom of Italy and the invitation of the King of Sardinia (Vittorio Emanuele) as King of Italy (1902/1943). Moreover, after the 1st. World War (1914/1918) a fascist movement came into a dictatorship headed by Benito Mussolini and the King was a figure head. Mussolini decided to get involved into an expansion, and invaded Ethiopia in 1935. Liberated by British and Ethiopian troops in 1941. But it was not all, he tried to occupy Greece but the War had did not go well and Germany was forced to assist Italy on its failed invasion . Mussolini entered Italy into the German-Japanese pact, but the fascist council brought a a vote of no confidence in 1943, after the invasion of the Sicily by the Allies. Mussolini was arrested and escaped but captured by the "Partisans" whom have him executed, hanged on a street light post.