Social Republic 100 Lire Barbetti 10.10.1944 Extra Fine

Social Republic period

The Italian Social Republic (RSI), also known as the Republic of Salò, was the regime, which existed between September 1943 and April 1945, wanted by Nazi Germany and led by Benito Mussolini, in order to govern part of the militarily controlled Italian territories by the Germans after the armistice of Cassibile. Its legal nature is controversial: it is considered a puppet state by much of historiography, as well as by the prevailing doctrine on international law; however, some historians and jurists have problematized the scope of this definition, defining CSR as an "insurrectional government" (therefore endowed with its own subjectivity) or in any case a body endowed with a system with an original character and not derived from that of Germany

On the back "BI" monogram – drawing by Barbetti etching by Ballarini

Watermark figure 100, in the oval head of Mercury, mark of the head of Italy – large B of Banca

Signatures: Azzolini / Urbini