1919 Bolscevismo / 1923 Fascismo: the lira-and-franco scales (Fascist election postcard, 1924)
Colour postcard in two halves labelled '1919 - Bolscevismo' and '1923 - Fascismo'. In each half a pair of scales weighs a 1-lira coin against a 1-franc coin, over a crowd of red-flag marchers on the left and marching Blackshirts carrying tricolours on the right. The scales tip one way in 1919 and the other in 1923, so one exchange comparison stands in for the whole record of each period.
- Date
- 1924
- Period
- Interwar
- Made by
- Fascist election propaganda postcard for the 1924 election (publisher not named)
- Country
- Fascist Italy
- Medium
- Postcard
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Fascist Italy
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Techniques
- Card stackingTransfer
- Leader
- Benito Mussolini
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (file from a collector's website, mymilitaria.it), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (anonymous Italian card, 1924, before 1931; Commons PD-EU-no author disclosure)
Publisher and artist not named; Fascist election postcard, 1924. Via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
1 LIRA 1 FRANCO 1919 - BOLSCEVISMO 1 LIRA 1 FRANCO 1923 - FASCISMO
1 LIRA 1 FRANC 1919 - BOLSHEVISM 1 LIRA 1 FRANC 1923 - FASCISM
The coin legends are the only text in each half besides the captions along the bottom edge.
