1 Scudo - Carlo Coronation

Carlo di Borbone was crowned King of Sicily in Palermo in July 1735 after his forces swept through the peninsula during the War of the Polish Succession — a conflict ostensibly about a disputed Polish throne that handed the Bourbons southern Italy almost as a side effect. This scudo was struck specifically to commemorate that coronation, making it an issue born from diplomatic opportunism as much as military victory. Carlo was eighteen years old when he took the Sicilian crown, and would later abdicate to become Carlos III of Spain.