Denaro minuto

The denaro minuto belongs to the coinage of the Aragonese administration of Sardinia, which came under Crown of Aragon control following the conquest begun in 1323. By the early fifteenth century, the island's monetary system was a patchwork of local issues and imported Aragonese and Italian currency, with the Sardinian mints producing billon fractions primarily to address chronic shortages of small change in local markets. The Cagliari mint, responsible for issues of this period, operated fitfully under royal license rather than continuous royal mandate.

CNI II#19 places this type firmly within a narrow reign window, but die linkage studies have suggested the actual production span may have been compressed into fewer years than the bracket implies.