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120 Grana - Ferdinando II 4th portrait
| Uitgever | Two Sicilies, Kingdom of the |
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| Jaar | 1851-1859 |
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| Techniek | Milled |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Bare, bearded head of King Ferdinando II in high relief, facing right, rendered in a mature neoclassical portrait style with finely detailed wavy hair. The truncation of the neck is plain and unadorned. The circular legend FERDINANDVS II. DEI GRATIA REX runs along the periphery, beginning at the lower left and continuing clockwise. The date, here 1856, is positioned in the exergue at the base of the design, centered below the portrait. |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Latin |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The 120 Grana was the premier silver denomination of the Bourbon kingdom, and Ferdinando II's fourth portrait type — introduced in the 1850s — reflects a reign that had turned sharply reactionary after the 1848 revolutions. His brutal suppression of the Sicilian and Neapolitan uprisings earned him the epithet "Re Bomba" from Gladstone, whose published letters condemning the Neapolitan political prisons caused a diplomatic scandal across Europe.
Production continued until Ferdinando's death in 1859, just one year before Garibaldi's Expedition of the Thousand ended Bourbon rule entirely. Coins from the final years of issue effectively circulated under two successive governments within months.