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1860: Florence and Tuscany, the Italian lira was introduced

the journal Florence Tell
2005 Text and photos by Robert Ferdinand

in July 1860 in Florence and Tuscany is introducing the Italian lira, the derivation of the Piedmont, divided into one hundred and ten tenths cents. The Italian lira was then legal movement in Tuscany before the actual unification of Italy (1861), this at the behest of the Provisional Government of Tuscany, that it wanted to accelerate the annexation of Tuscany to the Kingdom of Savoy, which, although approved by the Tuscan with the plebiscite in the spring of 1860, they saw threatened by the republican movement. The new lira was minted by the mint of Florence and on one side was the effigy of King Vittorio Emanuele II surrounded by the words "Re-elect." The Piedmontese-Italian lira
thus replacing the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, but introduced in the period of Napoleonic rule, and other coins that circulated in the centuries Grand Duchy (money, democracies, money, Francesconi and Paul). The Grand Duchy of Tuscany
pound was divided into 20 shillings and 3 every penny in money, but could also be composed of 12 democracies (from the German translation of the cross), while democracies need 8 to have a paul. Mr Francesconi was the silver coin, that of the pure gold (a gold piece corresponded to more than 14 pounds), while the forint was famous for many decades been abolished, only to reappear, with designs and different values, briefly, in 1859 .
A Tuscan lira was the daily salary of an unskilled worker, whereas a train ticket for a regional trip will cost four. With the introduction of the Italian lira was established in Tuscany for the transition to the new currency that the pound was worth 84 cents Tuscan Italian.
On July 17, 1861, the Italian lira was extended to the whole Italian territory, but in Tuscany the money, the democracies, the money, the Francesconi and Paul continues to have legal value for many years. RDF