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1 Denaro - Carlo I d'Angio coat of arms
| Issuer | Sicily, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1266-1282 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | A pointed heraldic shield occupies the central field, charged with three fleurs-de-lis arranged two above one, surmounted by a horizontal label (lambello) of three points, identifying the arms of Charles I of Anjou as a younger son of the French royal house. The shield is set within a beaded inner circle, with the surrounding Latin legend +DVC.APL`.ET.PRINC.CAP partially visible along the periphery. The flan is irregular and the strike is typical of thirteenth-century hammered billon coinage. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlo I d'Angiò seized the Kingdom of Sicily by papal grant after defeating and killing Manfredi at Benevento in 1266, and this small billon issue belongs to the monetary reorganization that followed. The Angevin administration largely preserved the existing southern Italian coinage infrastructure — the mints at Naples and Brindisi among them — while imposing new dynastic imagery to signal the change of regime.
The series ends abruptly with the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, the island uprising that expelled the Angevins from Sicily proper and split the kingdom.