Florin - Fernando I

Fernando I of Aragon — the Infante of Castile who secured the Crown of Aragon through the Compromise of Caspe in 1412 — ruled for just four years before his death in 1416, making his Valencia florin issues among the shorter-reigned gold types in the Aragonese series. The florin itself was modeled on the Florentine fiorino, adopted across the Crown of Aragon in the mid-fourteenth century as a deliberate alignment with Mediterranean commercial networks.

Fernando's reign coincided with the final resolution of the Western Schism, a preoccupation that consumed considerable royal energy and treasury resources.