Groat - Alfonso IV

Alfonso IV of Aragon — Alfonso V to the Aragonese, known to history as "el Magnànim" — spent the bulk of his reign not in Catalonia but in Naples, which he seized in 1442 after nearly fifteen years of intermittent campaigning. The Principality continued striking in his name throughout his absence, making these groats a mundane fixture of Catalan commerce while their nominal issuer governed a Mediterranean empire from a foreign court. He never returned to the Iberian peninsula after 1432.