1 Denaro - Manfredi MA/Y

Manfredi seized the Sicilian throne in 1258 after spreading a false rumor of his half-brother Conradin's death — a calculated political fiction that bought him eight years of rule before Conradin's Ghibelline cause could reassert itself. His coinage drew deliberately on Hohenstaufen monetary traditions, maintaining the billon denaro as the backbone of petty commerce in a kingdom still economically shaped by his father Frederick II. The MEC XIV attribution places this squarely within the Southern Italian monetary sequence that survived the dynastic chaos of the 1250s largely intact.