Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
5 Tornesi - Ferdinando II
| Issuer | Two Sicilies, Kingdom of the |
|---|---|
| Year | 1831-1841 |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Copper |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Bare-headed effigy of Ferdinand II in youthful right-facing profile, with finely engraved wavy hair rendered in the Neoclassical style. The truncation of the neck is clean and unadorned, with a small six-pointed star positioned in the lower field beneath the bust. The encircling Latin legend reads FERDINANDVS II D G REGNI VTR SIC ET HIER REX, separated by interpuncts, and is contained within a finely toothed border. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | FERDINANDVS II.D·G.REGNI VTR.SIC. ET HIER.REX |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Ferdinando II took the Neapolitan throne in 1830 at twenty years old and almost immediately set about reorganizing the kingdom's copper coinage, which had become a chaotic mix of degraded earlier issues and emergency pieces. The 5 Tornesi series that followed ran through the 1830s as the workhorse denomination for daily commerce in one of Europe's most densely populated kingdoms — and suffered accordingly in circulation.
The 1837 cholera epidemic, which killed roughly 60,000 in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies alone, created severe disruptions to trade and mint operations at Naples. Coins from those years often show accelerated wear patterns attributable to continued heavy use despite reduced economic activity.