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10 Tornesi - Francesco I
| Issuer | Kingdom of the Two Sicilies |
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| Year | 1825 |
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| Value | 10 Tornesi (0.05) |
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| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Francesco I, King of the Two Sicilies, facing right, rendered in high relief with naturalistic detail to the curly hair and sideburns. The truncation of the bust is plain. A small five-pointed star appears in the lower field. The circular legend surrounding the portrait reads FRANCISCVS I D G REGNI VTR SIC ET HIER REX, separated from the rim by a continuous inner beaded border. |
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| Reverse description | Plain field dominated by a large Bourbon royal crown in the upper portion, rendered with fine engraving detail including pearled arches and a cross surmounting the orb. Below the crown, the denomination is inscribed in two lines in bold Roman capitals: TORNESI above DIECI. A horizontal rule separates the denomination from the date 1825 in the exergue. The design is enclosed within an inner beaded border and an outer raised rim. |
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Francesco I ascended to the Neapolitan throne in 1825 following the death of his father Ferdinando I, making this issue one of the first struck under his name. His reign lasted only six years before his son Ferdinando II inherited a kingdom already straining under the contradictions of post-Restoration absolutism. The tornese denomination itself was a legacy accounting unit awkwardly rationalized into the Bourbon monetary system after Napoleon's brother-in-law Murat had modernized Neapolitan coinage on French decimal lines — a reform the restored Bourbons kept in practice while erasing it in name.