+ OPERATAIN VRBE MESSANE / REX W - SCVS in two lines; annulet above / Legend in three lines in Kufic; circular legend in Kufic around: al-malik Ghulyalim al-musta'izz bi-illah
duriba bi-amr al-malik al-mu'azzam al-musta'izz bi-llah ("King William the Second powerful by the grace of God; Minted by order of the Magnificent King, eager to be exalted by God"). Messina mint. 16mm, 1.4 grams. Rodolfo Spahr "Le Monete Sisiliane" #119

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.