1 Denaro - Corrado II

Corrado II — known as Conradin — was never crowned King of Sicily in any meaningful administrative sense; he was a child claimant ruling in name while regents and papal antagonists carved up his inheritance. These denari were struck during the regency period following the death of Conrad IV, when the Hohenstaufen grip on the island was already loosening under sustained Angevin and papal pressure. Conradin was fourteen when Charles of Anjou had him beheaded in Naples in 1268, making this small billon piece a product of a reign that existed more on paper than in practice.