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Denier - Charles I of Anjou Messina mint
| Issuer | Kingdom of Sicily |
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| Year | 1266-1282 |
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| Weight | 0.7 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | ND (1266-1282) |
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Charles I seized the Sicilian throne in 1266 after defeating and killing Manfred at Benevento, a papal-backed conquest that handed him control of one of the most monetarily active kingdoms in the Mediterranean. Messina was the senior mint of the island, and Charles continued striking deniers there in the billon tradition inherited from his Hohenstaufen predecessors — a pragmatic continuity designed to ease commercial acceptance among a population with no loyalty to the new Angevin order.
His reign over Sicily ended abruptly with the Sicilian Vespers of March 1282, after which the island passed to Peter III of Aragon. Messina mint production under Charles ceased entirely that year.