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120 Grana - Ferdinando II
| Issuer | Two Sicilies, Kingdom of the |
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| Year | 1831-1835 |
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| Currency | Ducat (1815-1860) |
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| Obverse lettering | FERDINANDVS II. DEI GRATIA REX. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Ferdinando II took the Neapolitan throne in 1830 at age twenty and almost immediately set about reforming the coinage his father Francesco I had left in disarray. The 120 Grana — the kingdom's principal large silver denomination — was restruck under revised monetary ordinances issued in 1831, with the fineness standardized at .833 as part of a broader effort to bring Two Sicilies coinage into closer alignment with contemporary European monetary conventions.
KM#309 spans only four years before design revisions produced the successor type. Examples from the 1835 date are notably scarcer in commerce than those of 1832 and 1833.