5 Lire - Victor Emmanuel I

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.