1 Denaro - Joanna I

1 Denaro - Joanna I - obverse1 Denaro - Joanna I - reverse

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Features

Issuer Kingdom of Naples (Italian States)
Queen Joanna I (1343-1382)
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.
And 13 more volumes.
MEC XIV# 721,
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.

Obverse

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

Reverse

Cross potent, lis in each quarter

Script: Latin

Lettering: + IERL' ET SICLIE REGINA

Translation: Queen of Jerusalem and Sicily.

Mint

Naples, Italy

Comments

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
ND (1343-1347)  Uncommon

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