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| Issuer | San Marino |
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| Year | 2013 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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San Marino has issued commemorative gold coinage under licensing arrangements that allow it to mint legal tender far beyond what its 34,000 citizens could ever absorb — a function of the republic's unique position as an enclave state with no central bank obligations to a larger monetary union. The Henry Ford issue sits within a series honoring figures the republic's mint has deemed culturally significant, a loosely defined criterion that has produced some genuinely odd bedfellows over the decades.
Ford's inclusion likely traces to the centennial appetite for early 20th-century industrial history. The Highland Park assembly line began full operation in 1913.