Italian Somaliland, 20 Somali
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Italian Somaliland, 20 Somali “ Cassa per la circolazione monetaria Somalia AFIS” 1950
Conditions: VF
Width: 158.00 mm
Height: 98.00 mm
On 1 April 1950, the Amministrazione fiduciaria italiana della Somalia (AFIS) began its rule. A deployment of 6,500 troops landed in Somalia to assist the establishment of AFIS under the leadership of Giovanni Fornari. Fornari's three year tenure would mark the most difficult years of the Trusteeship. Professor I.M. Lewis maintained that to Somalis, the large Italian army presence deployed at the start of the mandate, "...gave the handover much the character of a military occupation.
