120 Grana - Ferdinando II

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.