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.
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.