Naples and Sicily 1840 20 grana

from the Mountain Groan Collection

The specimen shown is a better date of a type struck 1839-59. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was annexed to Italy in 1860 but remains poor, backward and corrupt. The twenty grana was one-sixth of a piastra.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 4.59 g, 0.833 fine silver, 21.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM 332 (formerly KM C151a).

Sources:

• Fabrizi, Davide, Monete Italiane Regionale: Napoli, Pavia: Edizioni Numismatica Varesi, 2010.
• Gigante, Fabio, Gigante 2016: Catalogo Nazionale delle Monete Italiano Dal '700 All'Euro, 24a ed. Varese, Italy, 2015.
• Montenegro, Eupremio, Montenegro 2015: Manuale del Collezionista di Monete Italiane, 30 ed., Torino, Italy: Montenegro s.a.s., 2014.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.

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