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5 Lire Prova
| Issuer | San Marino |
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| Year | 1932 |
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| Value | 5 Lire (5 SML) |
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| Obverse description | Left-facing draped bust of a young woman wearing a close-fitting bonnet and a decorative headband, her hair arranged in a cluster of curls at the nape of the neck. The effigy is rendered in a refined neoclassical style typical of Italian engraving of the early twentieth century. The circular legend REPVBBLICA·DI·S·MARINO runs along the upper periphery, bordered by a beaded inner circle. The date 1932 appears in the lower field, flanked by raised dots. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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San Marino struck proof and prova pieces in the early 1930s primarily for presentation and official record purposes rather than circulation. The 1932 prova issues are pattern coins — produced in extremely limited numbers to document approved designs before full minting runs, and occasionally distributed to dignitaries or retained in ministry archives.
KM#Pr5 is among the genuinely scarce San Marinese issues of the interwar period, when the republic's coinage was produced under Italian Fascist monetary oversight — a political reality that constrained both design autonomy and production decisions.