Florin - Alfonso V

Alfonso V of Aragon — "the Magnanimous" — spent so much of his reign in Italy, pursuing and eventually securing the Kingdom of Naples from 1442 onward, that his administration of the Aragonese territories including Majorca was conducted largely at a distance. The Majorcan florin continued the Aragonese tradition of copying the Florentine fiorino d'oro, a deliberate policy that kept Aragonese commercial gold acceptable across Mediterranean trade networks without requiring merchants to re-evaluate the coin's trustworthiness.

Cru#800 is among the more thinly documented Aragonese florin attributions, and distinguishing Majorcan from mainland Aragonese strikes of this period often depends on subtle mintmark differences.