1 Luigino - Giorgio I

Seborga's claim to independence rests on a medieval deed and a 1963 village vote that elected Giorgio Carbone — a flower grower — as its prince. The luigino, named after a 17th-century Ligurian trade coin struck for Levantine markets, was adopted as Seborga's currency largely as a publicity instrument, and it worked: international press coverage through the 1990s turned this tiny hamlet near Bordighera into a minor geopolitical curiosity. Italy has never acknowledged the claim.