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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 2836766, member: 56653&quot;]Hello again everyone, I know there&#039;s been a long time since I last posted <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Hope you are all well and thriving.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is something one does not see often, at least outside Southern Italy, and even there not that often at all. This piece was sold recently by a German auction house:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>ALFONSO d&#039;ARAGONA (de TRASTAMARA)</b>, King of ARAGON, MAJORCA, VALENCIA, SICILY, CORSICA,</p><p>SARDINIA, Count of BARCELONA, ROUSSILLON, CERDAGNE (1416-1458), King of NAPLES (1442-1458),</p><p>as <b>ALFONSO I &quot;Il Magnanimo&quot;, King of NAPLES and SICILY.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>AE15mm 0.6g copper denaro primo tipo (stemma palato I e IV), Naples mint cca. 1442-1458.</p><p>OBV: + ALFONSV . D : G : REX; facing crowned bust</p><p>REV: SICILIE(?) : CITR : VLTR: Aragonese coat of arms</p><p>REF: cf. Biaggi 1665, cf. MIR 59, CNI n°252 P/R n° 10 d&#039;Andrea/Andreani n°27 Rare.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a minor variation of the regular MIR 59, with ALFONSV instead of ALFONSVS and : between the words in the legends instead of the pellets.</p><p><br /></p><p>The issue can be viewed and the type found <a href="https://numismatica-italiana.lamoneta.it/moneta/W-ALFI/4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatica-italiana.lamoneta.it/moneta/W-ALFI/4" rel="nofollow">here </a></p><p><br /></p><p>Alfonso was a Renaissance man and knight, being adopted into the late Angevin ruling family of Naples in cca. 1422, where he became king after his conquest of Naples in 1442 from Renato d&#039;Angio/Rene d&#039;Anjou. He was also a member of the Order of the Dragon, an anti-Ottoman alliance of Western, Central and Eastern-European lords and barons which also included Vlad II Dracul and, after 1465/70, Vlad III Dracula. He was also in a close relationship -- as inheritor of eastern Angevin interests -- with Georgios &quot;Skanderbeg&quot; Kastriotis of Albania.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]669995[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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