2 1/2 Luigini - Marcello I St. Bernard Church

Seborga is a small Ligurian village whose claim to principality status rests on a disputed 1079 deed and a 1963 self-declaration by flower grower Giorgio Carbone, who had himself elected prince. The Italian state has never recognized the claim. These luigini — named after the 17th-century French coin widely imitated across Europe and circulated in the Levant trade — are issued as novelty pieces with no legal tender status outside Seborga's own informal economy, where they are accepted by local merchants as a tourist gesture rather than genuine currency.