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<p>[QUOTE="serafino, post: 5149838, member: 74574"]Love this rare and expensive coin. Back then there were two monetary systems used in the same Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Sicily had their own coins minted in Palermo and from Naples down to Calabria had their own coins minted in Naples. The King on this coin was Ferdinando di Borbone. This 30 Tari silver coin is so big I wonder if it was used much in circulation. The more common Sicilian 12 Tari Piastra coin was a crown sized coin and it weighed around 27.3 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>My family members lived in Sicily back then and I wonder if they ever saw or used one of these giant coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="serafino, post: 5149838, member: 74574"]Love this rare and expensive coin. Back then there were two monetary systems used in the same Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. Sicily had their own coins minted in Palermo and from Naples down to Calabria had their own coins minted in Naples. The King on this coin was Ferdinando di Borbone. This 30 Tari silver coin is so big I wonder if it was used much in circulation. The more common Sicilian 12 Tari Piastra coin was a crown sized coin and it weighed around 27.3 grams. My family members lived in Sicily back then and I wonder if they ever saw or used one of these giant coins.[/QUOTE]
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