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1 Pierreale - Giovanni d'Aragona
| Issuer | Sicily, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1285-1296 |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Reverse description | The coat of arms of Aragon — a shield bearing vertical pales — is depicted centrally within a raised octofoil border decorated with small pellets at the cusps and a beaded inner circle. The shield is rendered with crosshatched and striated engraving, characteristic of the hammered coinage of the Aragonese rulers of Sicily. A Latin circumferential legend encircles the design between the beaded border and the outer toothed rim, separated by trefoil stops. |
| Reverse script | Latin |
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Giovanni d'Aragona ruled Sicily as a direct consequence of the Sicilian Vespers uprising of 1282, when the island's population massacred French Angevin forces and invited the Crown of Aragon to replace them. The Pierreale — named for Peter I, Giovanni's father, who established the type — continued as Sicily's principal silver denomination under Giovanni's reign. The Angevins never accepted the loss; the resulting War of the Sicilian Vespers dragged on until 1302, six years after Giovanni's death.
MIR 179 is among the scarcer attributions within the Pierreale series, with Giovanni's issues generally less well-documented than his father's founding strikes.