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1 Tari - Carlo V
| Issuer | Naples, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1546-1556 |
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| Value | 1 Tari (⅙) |
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| Obverse lettering | CAROLVS IIIII ROM IMP |
| Reverse description | Elaborate quartered and crowned imperial eagle displayed, supporting a large crowned heraldic shield bearing the manifold arms of the Spanish-Habsburg dominions, including the quarterings of Castile, León, Aragon, Sicily, Austria, Burgundy, and Naples. Two supporters flank the shield on either side. A beaded border frames the design, with the abbreviated legend referencing the sovereign's titles in Spain, the Two Sicilies, and Jerusalem distributed around the periphery. |
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Carlo V ruled Naples as an absentee sovereign, governing through a succession of viceroys while simultaneously managing the Habsburg empire's commitments across Europe and the Americas. The Neapolitan mint during his reign was among the most productive in southern Europe, feeding coinage into a kingdom perpetually strained by war taxation and Spanish military requisitions. This particular denomination circulated heavily in a region where Spanish fiscal demands were a chronic source of civil unrest — the same pressures that would eventually explode in the Masaniello revolt nearly a century later.