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Giuseppe Romagnoli was a former Italian Military man. He obtained unlimited discharge from the army, without ever having performed military service. In 1953 Romagnoli, at the time still resident at via Spallanzani 11, was recommended by Monsignor Giovanni Costantini, president of the Pontifical Central Commission for Sacred Art. Romagnoli directed the School of the Art of the Medaglia della Zecca from 1909 to 1952 and in addition to his activity as director, curator of the historical collections and teacher of modeling of the School, he was a prolific artist who with his work "told" an important part of the history of the Fascist Nation. Romagnoli was assigned to design the coins of this new country Albania that was under the Italian protectorate. Here some coins of Albania that Giuseppe Romagnoli designed. Apart from appeasing the fascist government in Italy, Romagnoli had few ideas. He enjoyed pilfering the history of Greece. Characters like Alexander t...