Florin - Juan II

Juan II inherited the Aragonese crown in 1458 following the death of his brother Alfonso V, who had spent the bulk of his reign consumed by Neapolitan affairs and rarely set foot in Valencia. Juan's own tenure was dominated by the Catalan Civil War, which dragged on until 1472 and forced repeated fiscal strain across his territories. Valencian florins of this period were struck to the Aragonese florin standard ultimately derived from the Florentine fiorino, a weight convention the Crown of Aragon had maintained with remarkable consistency since the mid-fourteenth century.