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1 Luigino - Marcello I
| Issuer | Principality of Seborga |
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| Year | 2012 |
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| Currency | Luigino (1994-date) |
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| Obverse description | Facing bust of Prince Marcello I of Seborga, depicted in contemporary attire with jacket and tie, rendered in moderate relief within a raised inner circle. The circumferential legend reads MARCELLO I PRINCIPE DI SEBORGA along the upper arc, with the date 2012 appearing in the lower exergual area flanked by two raised dots on either side. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Seborga, a village of roughly 300 people in the Ligurian hills near Ventimiglia, has claimed independence from Italy since Giorgio Carbone revived the principality argument in 1963, basing it on a disputed 1729 land transaction the Savoys allegedly never properly completed. The luigino — named after Carbone himself, who ruled as Giorgio I until his death in 2009 — became the territory's symbolic currency, accepted by local businesses more as a novelty than a functioning monetary instrument. Marcello I succeeded Giorgio I following a local election in 2010.