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Italy: Iconic Vespa features in latest Italian excellence collector coin series

The Istituto Poligrafico Zecca della Stato (IPZS) have made available new silver collector coins (12th April) which focus not only on Italian design and excellence, but specifically on one product to have emerged from the economic boom after the end of the Second World War, the Vespa.
It was actually in 1944 that Piaggio engineers Renzo Spolti and Vittorio Casini put their idea to paper and designed a motorcycle with bodywork that fully enclosed the drivetrain and formed a tall splash guard at the front

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