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1 Gigliato - Carlo II
| Issuer | Kingdom of Naples |
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| Year | 1285-1309 |
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| Currency | Piastra (1266-1812) |
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| Reverse description | A bold long cross pattée occupies the centre of the field, its arms extending nearly to the inner beaded border and dividing the reverse into four quadrants. Each quadrant contains a fleur-de-lis, the dynastic emblem of the Angevin house, rendered in the Gothic style typical of late 13th-century southern Italian coinage. The top arm of the cross terminates in a trefoil or fleur-de-lis finial, further emphasising the Angevin heraldic programme. The entire central device is enclosed within a plain inner circle and a beaded border, with the Latin legend from Psalm 99:4 running continuously around the outer margin of the coin. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The gigliato was introduced under Charles II as a direct response to the monetary prestige of the French gros tournois, which had been dominating Mediterranean trade circuits since the mid-thirteenth century. Charles, who spent much of his early reign as a prisoner of Aragon following the disastrous Battle of the Gulf of Naples in 1284, needed a high-grade silver coin capable of competing with established foreign issues the moment he regained the throne. The design vocabulary was deliberately chosen to project dynastic legitimacy at a moment when Angevin authority over southern Italy remained genuinely contested.