Filippo V's hold on Naples was legally established by the 1701 Grand Alliance's counter-claim, and militarily contested almost immediately — the War of the Spanish Succession made southern Italy a secondary theater but a genuinely unstable one. Austrian forces under Daun took Naples in 1707, ending Bourbon administration of the kingdom entirely and terminating this issue mid-series. Coins struck in the final year of this window would have entered circulation just as the political settlement collapsed.
Filippo V's hold on Naples was legally established by the 1701 Grand Alliance's counter-claim, and militarily contested almost immediately — the War of the Spanish Succession made southern Italy a secondary theater but a genuinely unstable one. Austrian forces under Daun took Naples in 1707, ending Bourbon administration of the kingdom entirely and terminating this issue mid-series. Coins struck in the final year of this window would have entered circulation just as the political settlement collapsed.