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1 Denaro - Roberto
| Issuer | Naples, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1309-1343 |
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| Orientation | Coin alignment ↑↓ |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A bold cross potent occupies the central field, its four arms each terminating in a transverse bar, set within a beaded inner circle. The cross is rendered in a robust, slightly irregular hammered style typical of Neapolitan medieval billon coinage. The surrounding legend reads + IERL • ET • SICIL • REX, proclaiming Robert's royal titles as King of Jerusalem and Sicily, in Gothic Latin lettering with pellet stops separating each word. |
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Roberto d'Angiò's long reign saw Naples become one of the foremost cultural and political powers in the Mediterranean, but the coinage tells a different story. The billon denaro was the workhorse of small exchange, issued continuously across his thirty-four-year rule with little variation — a deliberate monetary conservatism that reflected the dynasty's need to maintain trust in petty coinage after the disruptions of the Sicilian Vespers and the subsequent War of the Sicilian Vespers had destabilized Angevin finances throughout the region.
MEC XIV distinguishes at least two die varieties under 718-719, differentiated primarily by lettering style rather than issuing period.