---
title: 'Kingdom of Italy 5 lire coin, 1927: eagle on the fasces (Romagnoli design)'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/italy-5-lire-aquilotto-coin-1927/
description: Both faces of a 1927 five-lira coin. The obverse is the profile of King Vittorio Emanuele III with his full royal title.
section: Collection
---

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# Kingdom of Italy 5 lire coin, 1927: eagle on the fasces (Romagnoli design)

Both faces of a 1927 five-lira coin. The obverse is the profile of King Vittorio Emanuele III with his full royal title. The reverse shows an eagle with open wings standing on a bound bundle of rods with an axe, the Roman fasces, above the value 'L. 5' and the date. The tell: the fasces, the emblem of the Fascist party, is carried on everyday state money beside the monarch's head, joining party and state symbols on a coin every citizen handles.

## Text on the object

Original (Italian) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
[reverse:] R    1927    L. 5

[obverse:] VITTORIO EMANUELE III RE D'ITALIA
[below the bust, small:] G. ROMAGNOLI [second small signature illegible]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
[reverse:] R (Rome mint)    1927    5 lire

[obverse:] VICTOR EMMANUEL III KING OF ITALY
[below the bust, small:] G. ROMAGNOLI [second small signature illegible]
```

Small signatures read at 960 px; the second is not legible. Translation is a machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader.

[← Depero, 'Libro imbullonato' (1927), page 21: Mussolini quotation set as a typographic page](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/depero-libro-imbullonato-mussolini-quote-1927/) [Pravda, front page, 8 April 1927: 'Monstrous provocation by the Zhang Zuolin bandits' →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pravda-chudovishchnaya-provokatsiya-1927/)

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