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5 Lire - Victor Emmanuel I
| Issuer | Turin Mint |
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| Year | 1816-1820 |
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| Value | 5 Lire |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | DVX SAB•IANVAE ET MONTISF•PRINC•PED•& L• 5• |
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Victor Emmanuel I returned to the Piedmontese throne in 1814 after Napoleon's collapse, and the resumption of coinage at Turin was itself a political act — a deliberate reassertion of Savoyard authority over a kingdom that had spent years as a French departmental appendage. The 5 Lire denomination was inherited directly from the Napoleonic monetary system, which Piedmont kept despite rejecting virtually everything else French.
Victor Emmanuel abdicated in March 1821 rather than grant a constitution to liberals agitating within his own army, cutting the series short.