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5 Leghe Libertà ai Popoli
| Issuer | Republic of the North |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Value | 5 Leghe |
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| Obverse description | Within a beaded inner circle, a full-length figure of Alberto da Giussano stands facing right, raising a sword aloft and bearing a shield, superimposed over a stylized outline map of northern Italy. The encircling legend reads REPUBBLICA DEL NORD · LIBERTÀ AI POPOLI around the periphery, divided by a vertical sword motif at the top. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Republic of the North was a short-lived separatist political project tied to the early Lega Nord movement in Italy, which gained significant traction in the early 1990s as northern industrialists and voters grew increasingly hostile to fiscal transfers to the south. This piece is a fantasy or propaganda issue — not legal tender by any recognized authority — produced to assert a symbolic claim to monetary independence that the movement never actually achieved.
The X# prefix in the Standard Catalog places it squarely among unofficial and fantasy coinages. It circulated as political theater, not commerce.