Lion's face three-quarters left // Arabic legend in three lines: al-Malik Ghiliam al-Thani ("King William the Second"). Messina mint. 14mm, 2.17 grams. Rodolfo Spahr "Le Monete Siciliane" #118; Medieval European Coinage vol. 14 p646 #432-436 plate 24.

The Kingdom of Sicily was a state that existed in the south of the Italian Peninsula and for a time the region of Ifriqiya from its founding by Roger II of Sicily in 1130 until 1816. It was a successor state of the County of Sicily, which had been founded in 1071 during the Norman conquest of the southern peninsula.