- Description
- Specifications
| ID Number: | YB28-0104 |
| Description: | 20 Centesimi |
| Country or State: | Kingdom of Italy (17 March 1861 - 18 June 1946) |
| Year: | 1894 |
| Head of State/Ruler: | Umberto I (Full Name: Umberto Ranieri Carlo Emanuele Giovanni Maria Ferdinando Eugenio di Savoia) |
| Reign: | 9 January 1878 – 29 July 1900 (22 years, 201 days) |
| Currency: | Lira |
| Obverse: | Crown, date within wreath, star above |
| Obverse Legend: | 1894 |
| Reverse: | Value within beaded circle |
| Reverse Legend: | REGNO D'ITALIA, 20 CENTESIMI |
| Designer: | Filippo Speranza |
| Edge: | Reeded |
| Mint Mark: | KB (Berlin) |
| Composition: | Copper-Nickel (75% Copper + 25% Nickel) |
| Diameter: | 21.00 mm |
| Weight: | 4.000 grams |
| Mintage: | 75,000,000 |
| Catalog Number: | KM# 28.1; Gigante: 45; Pagani: 611 |
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Umberto I nicknamed the Good (in Italian il Buono), was the King of Italy from 9 January 1878 until his death. He was deeply loathed in far-left circles, especially among anarchists, because of his conservatism and support of the Bava-Beccaris massacre in Milan. He was killed by anarchist Gaetano Bresci two years after the incident. Ascending the throne on the death of his father (9 January 1878), Umberto adopted the title "Umberto I of Italy" rather than "Umberto IV" (of Savoy), and consented that the remains of his father should be interred at Rome in the Pantheon, rather than the royal mausoleum of Basilica of Superga. |