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Double denaro - Charles I of Anjou
| Issuer | Kingdom of Sicily |
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| Year | 1266-1282 |
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| Composition | Billon |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross pattée occupies the central field, dividing the reverse into four quadrants, each containing a pellet or crescent ornament. The cross is deeply struck and extends nearly to the coin's edge, a design motif common to Angevin denaro coinage of the period. The peripheral legend SICILIE ET IERL, an abbreviation of Siciliae et Hierusalem referencing Charles I's claim to Sicily and Jerusalem, is distributed around the border. The flan is irregular in shape, consistent with hand-hammered medieval production at the Brindisi and Messina mints. The overall style reflects the Angevin monetary tradition inherited and adapted for southern Italian circulation. |
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| Reverse lettering | SICILIE ET IERL |
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Charles I seized the Kingdom of Sicily in 1266 after defeating and killing Manfred at the Battle of Benevento, and his billon coinage was a deliberate administrative imposition on a monetary system inherited from the Hohenstaufen. The double denaro circulated for barely sixteen years before the Sicilian Vespers of March 1282 — the popular uprising that massacred thousands of French occupiers in a single night — abruptly ended Angevin control of the island and terminated this entire coinage series.