Trifollaro - Guglielmo II

William II inherited the Norman kingdom of Sicily at age thirteen following the sudden death of his father William I in 1166, ruling under a regency until 1171. His reign proved unusually stable by Norman Sicilian standards, and the copper coinage circulated across a genuinely polyglot economy — Arabic-speaking Muslims, Byzantine Greeks, and Latin Normans all transacting with the same issues. The trifollaro denomination itself was a Norman administrative inheritance, its name derived from the Byzantine follis system the Normans absorbed when they displaced Greek authority in southern Italy and Sicily during the previous century.