1266-1282 AD., Italy, Kingdom of Sicily, Charles I of Anjou, Messina mint, Denaro, Spahr 37.

Italy, Kingdom of Sicily, Charles I of Anjou, Messina mint, no date, struck ca. 1266-1282 AD.,
Denaro (16 mm / 0,76 g), billon, observed weights: 0,5-0,8 g., axes about medal alignment ↑↑ (ca. 340°),
Obv.: + DVC • AP. [ET • PRI]C CA / • K A • , around and within linear circle.
Rev.: + KAR [• DEI GRA REX S]ICIL' , around cross within linear circle - croce patente.
Spahr 37 ; MIR 160 .

Charles I of Naples (21 March 1226 – 7 January 1285), known also as Charles of Anjou, was the King of Sicily by conquest from 1266, though he had received it as a papal grant in 1262 and was expelled from the island in the aftermath of the Sicilian Vespers of 1282. Thereafter, he claimed the island, though his power was restricted to the peninsular possessions of the kingdom, with his capital at Naples (and for this he is usually titled King of Naples after 1282, as are his successors).
Charles was the youngest son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, and hence younger brother of Louis IX of France and Alfonso II of Toulouse. He conquered the Kingdom of Sicily from the Hohenstaufen and acquirde lands in the eastern Mediterranean. However, the War of the Sicilian Vespers forced him to abandon his plans to reassemble the Latin Empire.
By marriage to Beatrice of Provence, heiress of Raymond Berengar IV of Provence, he was Count of Provence and Forcalquier from 1246. In 1247, his brother Louis IX made him Count of Anjou and Maine, as appanages of the French crown. By conquest and self-proclamation, he became King of Albania in 1272 and by purchase King of Jerusalem in 1277. By the testament of William II of Villehardouin, he inherited the Principality of Achaea in 1278.