Conquest of Ethiopia

Text: MEO IVSSV ET AVSPICIO DVCTI SVNT EXERCITVS IN AETHIOPIAM
On my order and under my auspices, armies were led, into Ethiopia

Extract from Mon.Anc. 26:
Meo iussu et auspicio ducti sunt duo exercitus eodem fere tempore in Aethiopiam et in Arabiam, quae appellatur Eudaemon.
On my order and under my auspices, two armies were led at almost the same time, into Ethiopia and into that part of Arabia which is called Felix.

Bust of Augustus sourrounded by palm-trees and pyramids.

The fascists invaded Ethiopia in October 1935, and Mussolini proclaimed the founding of the new Italian Empire in May 1936.

Michel 582, Sassone 422, AFA 514

Date of issue: 1937

Face value: 75 c.

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Date created: 22/03/00 11:41:49