Issuer | Kingdom of Naples (Italian States) |
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Queen |
Joanna I (1343-1382)
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Type | Standard circulation coin |
Years | 1343-1347 |
Value | 1 Denier (1⁄1440) |
Currency | Piastra (1266-1812) |
Composition | Billon |
Weight | 0.6 g |
Diameter | 15 mm |
Shape | Round (irregular) |
Technique | Hammered |
Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
Demonetized | Yes |
Number | N# 301829 |
References |
MIR# 32,
Alberto Varesi; 2000. Monete Italiane Regionali / Volume 1. Lombardia, zecche minori (2nd edition). Edizioni Numismatica Varesi, Pavia, Italy.
MEC XIV# 721, And 13 more volumes.
Philip Grierson, Lucia Travaini; 1998. Medieval European Coinage 14 / Italy III: South Italy, Sicily, Sardinia. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Biaggi# 1641
Elio Biaggi; 1992. Monete e zecche medievali italiane : dal sec. VIII al sec. XV. Montenegro, Torino, Italy.
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Label and seven lis, two lis on the label, three on pendants, two more below
Script: Latin
Lettering: IOhANNA • DEI • GRATIA
Translation: JOANNA • GOD'S • GRACE
Cross potent, lis in each quarter
Script: Latin
Lettering: + IERL' ET SICLIE REGINA
Translation: Queen of Jerusalem and Sicily.
Although her guilt was never proven, to ensure her own sole rule, Joanna had her first husband assassinated. For a time she was exiled to Avignon, where, hungry for money as well as power, she opened a brothel called "The Abbey." The brothel looked like a monastery. The women attended daily mass, did not work on Sundays, and served only elite Christians. But the facade was not a disguise; the Abbey was widely known as a whorehouse. After she supported Clement VII, the Avignon Pope, Pope Urban VI declared her a heretic and her Kingdom to be forfeit. She was captured, smothered between mattresses, and her body thrown into a deep well.
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Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
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ND (1343-1347) | Uncommon |
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