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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Medieval & Modern Coins| > |Sicily| > ME77194
Normans, Kingdom of Sicily, William II, 1166 - 1189 A.D.
|Sicily|, |Normans,| |Kingdom| |of| |Sicily,| |William| |II,| |1166| |-| |1189| |A.D.|, Secluded and pleasure-loving, William II, the Good, seldom emerged from his palace life at Palermo. Yet his reign was marked by an ambitious foreign policy and vigorous diplomacy. Champion of the papacy and in secret league with the Lombard cities he was able to defy the common enemy, Frederick I Barbarossa.
ME77194. Bronze follaro, MEC Italy III 432, VF, Messina mint, weight 2.208g, maximum diameter 12.6mm, die axis 0o, obverse facing lion head; reverse Arabic legend "al-malik / Ghulyalim / al-thani" (King William 2nd); SOLD











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