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71/2 luigini - Giorgio I

Uitgever Principality of Seborga
Jaar 1995
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Waarde 71/2 Luigini (7.5)
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Beschrijving voorzijde Draped bust of Giorgio I, Prince of Seborga, facing right, depicted with short hair and a beard, wearing a ceremonial garment adorned with a beaded necklace. The mint mark '1666 MINT-SB' appears incuse on the truncation. The surrounding legend reads 'GIORGIO I• PRINCIPE DI SEBORGA' along the upper periphery, with the date '1995' at the base, flanked by two floral ornaments.
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Opschrift voorzijde GIORGIO I• PRINCIPE DI SEBORGA 1666 MINT-SB * 1995 *
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Aanvullende informatie

Seborga is a small hilltop village in Liguria whose claim to independence rests on a 1079 Sardinian deed and a 1729 sale-that-never-was — the principality argues it was never legally incorporated into the Kingdom of Sardinia and therefore never became part of unified Italy. Giorgio Carbone, a flower grower elected "prince" by the villagers in 1963, pursued this claim with enough persistence that Seborga issued its own currency, the luigino, named after the 17th-century coin minted there when the village was briefly a genuine fiefdom of the Cistercian monks.

The original luigini were struck in quantity by several Italian principalities in the 1660s specifically for export to the Levant trade, where they circulated as low-value silver currency among Ottoman merchants.

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