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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2957441, member: 84744"]billon denaro, issued 1225 (Messina). obv: IRL SICIL REX rev: F.IPERATOR</p><p>[ATTACH=full]723226[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My notes:</p><p>Frederick II was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. His political and cultural ambitions, based in Sicily and stretching through Italy to Germany, and even to Jerusalem, were enormous; however, his enemies, especially the popes, prevailed, and his dynasty collapsed soon after his death. Frederick established in Sicily and southern Italy something very much like a modern, centrally governed kingdom with an efficient bureaucracy.</p><p><br /></p><p>He was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in 1220. This coin was issued just after he acquired the kingship of Jerusalem by means of a marriage with Princess Isabella (and forcing his father in law out of the position.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 2957441, member: 84744"]billon denaro, issued 1225 (Messina). obv: IRL SICIL REX rev: F.IPERATOR [ATTACH=full]723226[/ATTACH] My notes: Frederick II was one of the most powerful Holy Roman Emperors of the Middle Ages and head of the House of Hohenstaufen. His political and cultural ambitions, based in Sicily and stretching through Italy to Germany, and even to Jerusalem, were enormous; however, his enemies, especially the popes, prevailed, and his dynasty collapsed soon after his death. Frederick established in Sicily and southern Italy something very much like a modern, centrally governed kingdom with an efficient bureaucracy. He was crowned Holy Roman Emperor by the Pope in 1220. This coin was issued just after he acquired the kingship of Jerusalem by means of a marriage with Princess Isabella (and forcing his father in law out of the position.)[/QUOTE]
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