Lion's head, facing three quarters left // Palm tree. 24mm, 10.58 grams. Rodolfo Spahr "Le Monete Sisiliane" #117.

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.