1 Denaro - Charles II of Anjou (Gherardino)

Charles II ruled the Kingdom of Sicily in name only for much of his reign — he spent years as a prisoner of the Aragonese following the disastrous Battle of the Gulf of Naples in 1284, and the Sicilian island itself was permanently lost after the Vespers uprising of 1282. The Gherardino, named for the small silver coin it imitated in copper, was issued for the mainland territories — the Regnum that would eventually become the Kingdom of Naples.

MIR 190 and 191 distinguish between subtypes with minor die variations that remain difficult to attribute consistently without reference specimens in hand.