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10 Livres savoisiennes
| Issuer | État Souverain de Savoie |
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| Year | 1998 |
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| Currency | Livre |
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| Obverse description | At left, a portrait vignette of Marguerite Frichelet-Avet, a Savoyard resistance figure executed by French forces on 18 May 1793, with the arms of Savoy (a silver cross on a red field) positioned at upper left. At right, a vignette of the Château de Menthon-Saint-Bernard. The note is overprinted SPECIMEN and carries the legend indicating it cannot be used to pay French taxes. |
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| Obverse lettering | ETAT SOUVERAIN DE SAVOIE 10 LIVRES SAVOISIENNES Marguerite FRICHELET-AVET résistante savoisienne fusillée par les Français le 18 Mai 1793 SE 73+74 =1 SPECIMEN ne peut servir à payer l'impôt français |
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Savoie's status as a sovereign state was extinguished in 1860 when Napoleon III negotiated its annexation to France from the Kingdom of Sardinia — a transfer the local population ratified by plebiscite under conditions that remain contested by Savoyard regionalists to this day. This 1998 note is a fantasy or regional separatist piece, not a legal tender instrument issued by any recognized authority. No sovereign "État de Savoie" existed at the time of issue.
Such pieces circulated within autonomist political circles as symbolic currency, sometimes used at regional markets or events to make a constitutional point. Numismatic value is entirely contingent on interest in the movement itself.