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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 229321, member: 1824&quot;]Juanita,the Ligurian Republic was one of&nbsp; quite a few Italian puppet states that was set up by Napoleon Bonaparte in the late 1790&#039;s.If you have a copy of the 18th. Century Krause catalogue,you will see what I mean.</p><p><br /></p><p>You have got to be very careful,as there&#039;s a lot of forgeries of these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>96 Lire is an extremely odd denomination.I suppose that there was even a 48 Lire coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an article; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_Republic" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_Republic" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligurian_Republic</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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