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71/2 luigini - Giorgio I
| Issuer | Principality of Seborga |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Currency | Luigino (1994-date) |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga, facing right, depicted with shoulder-length hair, a beard, and an ornate cross pendant at his chest. The effigy occupies the central field with the mint mark '1666 MINT-SB' inscribed below the truncation. The circumferential legend reads 'GIORGIO I• PRINCIPE DI SEBORGA' along the upper arc, with the date '1995' at the base flanked by two asterisks serving as decorative separators. |
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| Reverse description | Three heraldic shields arranged side by side in the central field, surmounted by a princely crown above the central escutcheon; the left shield bears a cross with decorative elements, the central shield displays the cross of the House of Savoy, and the right shield features a complex quartered design. A sword rises diagonally from a rocky base between the shields, overlapping the composition. The denomination '7 1/2 L' appears to the lower left of the central device. The circumferential legend 'PRINCIPATO DI SEBORGA' arcs across the upper field, with 'SUB UMBRA SEDI' along the lower arc, both separated by asterisk stops. |
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Seborga, a small village in Liguria near the French border, declared itself an independent principality in 1963 when Giorgio Carbone — a flower grower — argued that the territory had never been formally incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1729 and therefore remained legally separate from Italy. The claim was never recognized by Rome. Carbone was elected "Giorgio I" by the villagers and issued stamps, currency, and passports as expressions of that claimed sovereignty.
The luigino is a denomination drawn from seventeenth-century Genoese and Ligurian coinage history, giving Seborga's issues a thin but genuine regional numismatic reference rather than pure invention.