★ The Saluto d’Oro – Grierson C11 ★

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Carlo I d'Angiò or Carlo II d'Angiò. 1266-1309. AV Saluto d’oro (23mm, 4.37 g, 12h). Napoli (Naples) mint. Struck after 1278. + KAROL’ · DЄI · GRA · IЄRL’m · SICILIЄ · RЄX, coat-of-arms; above, crescent between two stars; to left and right, rosette between two stars / + AVЄ · GRACIA · PLЄnA · DOMInUS · TЄCUm, c. Grierson, Coins of Medieval Europe C11 ; CNI XIX 1-4; MIR 18 (Napoli); Spahr –; MEC 14, 675-6; Friedberg 808. Toned. EF.

From the Richard A. Jourdan Collection of Medieval European Coins. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 95 (4 October 2004), lot 459.

In 1278 the coinage was comprehensively transformed. The Saluto d’oro, a coin of good gold was introduced, ‘having on the obverse an admirable representation of the Annunciation and on the other the shield of Naples-Jerusalem.’ (Grierson p.112).