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5 Leghe Piemonte
| Issuer | Republic of the North |
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| Year | 1992 |
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| Reference(s) | X#24 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Republic of the North — later absorbed into the broader Lega Nord political movement — issued this piece in 1992 as a provocative political statement during a period of acute institutional crisis in Italy. Operation Mani Pulite, the nationwide anti-corruption investigation launched that same year, was dismantling the postwar party system wholesale, and Northern separatist sentiment was running hotter than it had in decades. The "Leghe" denomination itself was a deliberate rejection of Italian monetary authority, naming the unit after the regional leagues that formed Lega Nord's organizational base.
Catalogued in the Unusual World Coins reference as X#24, it circulated as a fantasy or propaganda piece rather than accepted tender.