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At auction on Thursday 12 March 2026 at 14:30
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in silver
27.58 gr. - Diam. 37.00 mm.
Obverse: Bare head left; - Reverse: Crowned coat of arms.
27.58 gr. - Diam. 37.00 mm.
Obverse: Bare head left; - Reverse: Crowned coat of arms.
Pannuti-Riccio 1, MIR 537. Gigante 1.
Heavy, uneven patina.
SPL/q.FDC.
Francis II of Bourbon was the last ruler of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, ascending the throne in 1859 at a time of profound political and military crisis. Young and lacking solid government experience, he found himself confronting the advance of the Italian unification movement and the internal tensions that were weakening the Kingdom.
In 1860, the Expedition of the Thousand led by Giuseppe Garibaldi brought about the rapid collapse of Bourbon power in southern Italy. Francis II retreated first to Naples and then to the fortress of Gaeta, where he put up a final, futile resistance. With the fall of Gaeta in 1861, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies ceased to exist, and Francis II went into exile, becoming a symbolic figure of the end of the Bourbon monarchy and the twilight of the ancient political order of Southern Italy.
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