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1 Reale d'oro - Carlo I d'Angio
| Issuer | Sicily, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1266-1269 |
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| Value | 1 Reale |
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| Obverse description | Crowned bust of Charles I of Anjou facing right, wearing a jewelled crown and draped mantle, holding a fleur-de-lis sceptre in the left hand. The effigy is rendered in high relief in the characteristic hammered style of 13th-century Angevin coinage. The legend encircles the bust in Gothic script, interrupted by pellets or crosses as dividers. The portrait conveys a strong regal presence consistent with early Angevin iconographic conventions. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Carlo I's Reale d'oro was introduced immediately after his victory over Manfred at Benevento in February 1266, a battle that ended Hohenstaufen rule in southern Italy and delivered the Kingdom of Sicily to the Angevins. The coin was a deliberate monetary statement — Carlo needed to establish financial credibility fast, having arrived in Italy heavily in debt to Florentine banking houses that had financed his campaign at papal instigation.
The type was struck only within this narrow three-year window before Carlo reformed his coinage. Friederich Friedberg assigns it Fr#75; Chimienti's tighter cataloguing at #137 reflects distinctions in die work that Friedberg's earlier scholarship did not fully disaggregate.