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Gigliato Imitating Roberto I il Saggio
| Issuer | Kingdom of Naples |
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| Year | 1334-1348 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A cross pattée with outward-splaying arms at the center of the field, each quadrant filled with a fleur-de-lis, the whole executed in the characteristic Angevin style of the gigliato series. The cross extends to a beaded inner circle, and the design reflects the standard Neapolitan gigliato reverse type. The surrounding circular legend in Gothic script reads + HONOR REGIS IUDICIUM DILIGIT, a biblical reference from Psalms 98:4, enclosed between two beaded borders. |
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Roberto I died in January 1343, leaving Naples to his granddaughter Giovanna I — but the gigliato he had refined into one of the Mediterranean's dominant trade coins continued circulating and being imitated well into the 1340s under her reign. This piece belongs to that transitional production, struck in Naples but imitating Roberto's established type precisely because his name carried commercial trust that Giovanna's did not yet command.
The gigliato's success as a trade denomination across the Levant and Aegean had spawned imitations from Cyprus to the Latin East. Neapolitan mints knew this and leaned into it.