1/2 Florin - Fernando II

Fernando I of Aragon — known as Fernando de Antequera — ruled Majorca as Fernando II of the island kingdom for only four years before his death in 1416, making this a short-window issue with a correspondingly tight production run. He came to the throne through the Compromise of Caspe in 1412, the arbitration that ended the Aragonese interregnum following the extinction of the male Barcelona line.

The half-florin denomination tracks directly to the Florentine florin standard that Aragon had adopted in the previous century. Cru. 759 is among the scarcer fractions of the Aragonese-Majorcan florin series.