Florin - Alfonso V

Alfonso V of Aragon — called "the Magnanimous" by contemporaries — spent so much of his reign campaigning in Italy that he effectively governed his Aragonese territories by correspondence from Naples after 1432, where he remained until his death in 1458. Valencia's mint continued striking florins in his name throughout this absence, making the coinage of his reign a product of a kingdom whose king had not set foot on Iberian soil for decades.

The Valencian florin followed the weight standard established by Florence, adopted across the Crown of Aragon by Pedro IV in 1346.