Naples (1309-43) gigliato
This specimen was lot 1104 in Steve Album Auction 51 (Santa Rosa, CA, January 2025), where it sold for $168. The catalog description[1] noted, "NAPLES: Roberto d'Angiò, 1309-1343, AR gigliato, ND, crowned figure seated facing between two lion heads with lily scepter and cruciform globe, with ROBERT' DEI GRA IERL' ET SICIL REX around all and gate (?) above globe // lily cross with lilies at the ends of the arms with "hONOR REGIS IUDICIU DILIGIT around, S's in the legend on both sides are retrograde, well struck, PCGS graded AU58." The gigliato was a coin struck in Naples, Provence and also by the knights of St. John at Rhodes. It was eventually renamed the carlino. The piastra, when introduced in the sixteenth century, would be worth twelve carlini or gigliati. Robert's granddaughter, Joanna (r. 1343-81) was the last Angevin ruler of Naples.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specifications: 4 g, silver, 27 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: MIR-28.
- Fabrizi, Davide, Monete Italiane Regionale: Napoli, Pavia: Edizioni Numismatica Varesi, 2010.
- Grierson, Philip, Coins of Medieval Europe, London: B. A. Seaby Ltd., 1991.
- [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Norman Douglas Nicol, Auction 51, featuring the Howard Daniel III Collection of Asian Coins, the Almer H. Orr III Collection of World Coins and the Joe Sedillot Collection of German Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2024.
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