| Description : Immediately after the unification of Italy, there were fire
brigade organisations (pompieri) of varying quality at the local level. As a rule, these were volunteer fire brigades,
some of which were set up at the municipal level according to the medieval model. In 1939, the national fire brigade corps was
founded, in which military service could be performed from 1950 to 2005. However, the fire brigade in South Tyrol ‐ like
those in Trentino and Valle d'Aosta ‐ is an independent organisation and, unlike in the rest of Italy, relies almost
exclusively on volunteers. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the national fire brigade in Italy,
its logo is shown, surrounded in a circle by the designation "CORPO NAZIONALE DEI VIGILI DEL FUOCO" (National Corps of Fire
Guards). On the left is the country abbreviation "RI" (Repubblica Italiana, Italian Republic), on the right the year "2020" and
the "R" the mint mark of the Italian mint Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato in Rome. Below is the signet "LDS" of
the coin designer Luciana De Simoni. |
