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E-auction 31-10723 - fre_309523 - SICILY - KINGDOM OF SICILY - WILLIAM II THE GOOD Follaro n.d. Messine

SICILY - KINGDOM OF SICILY - WILLIAM II THE GOOD Follaro n.d. Messine VF
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Estimate : 80 €
Price : 24 €
Maximum bid : 40 €
End of the sale : 18 November 2013 16:42:30
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Follaro
Date: 1166-1189
Date: n.d.
Mint name / Town : Messine
Metal : copper
Diameter : 12,2 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,20 g.
Catalogue references :
MEC.14432

Obverse

Obverse legend : AL-MALIK / GHULYALIM / AL-THANI (EN ARABE).
Obverse description : Légende en trois lignes dans le champ.
Obverse translation : (Le roi Guillaume le second).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Reverse description : Tête de lion.

Commentary

L'atelier de Messine frappa des grands "follari" présentant une tête de lion et sur la face opposée un palmier.

Historical background

SICILY - KINGDOM OF SICILY - WILLIAM II THE GOOD

(1166-1189)

The Normans drove out the Muslims who had occupied Sicily since 827. In 1091, after thirty years of fighting, Roger I, brother of Robert Guiscard, became master of the island. In 1130, his son, Roger II (1130-1154), had himself proclaimed king of Sicily, Apulia and Calabria. On the death of Roger II, his son-in-law William I inherited the kingdom. The latter died in 1166 leaving Sicily to his son William II. The kings of Sicily were allied with the party of the Guelphs and opposed the Holy Roman Empire until 1186, the year Constance (widow of William I and daughter of Roger I) married Emperor Henry VI. William II died three years later and the Sicilians preferred to leave Sicily to Tancred, Count of Lecce.

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