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1 Grano - Ferdinando III
| Issuer | Sicily, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1794-1795 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | FERD · D.G· SIC· REX· N· O.V· |
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Ferdinando III ruled Sicily as a largely autonomous kingdom after fleeing the mainland in 1798 — but this issue predates that flight, struck while he still nominally held Naples as well. The early 1790s were a period of administrative strain in the Sicilian mints, with copper coinage chronically underproduced relative to commercial demand. The MIR and Spahr references list multiple die variants across this two-year emission, suggesting hurried or fragmented production runs rather than a single coordinated issue.