Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 2489. Estimate $250.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 25 September 2002.  Sold For $345. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicily. Palermo. Norman Kings. Ruggero II, as King. 1130-1154. AR Ducale (2.67 gm). Struck 1140. Facing bust of Christ / Byzantine style figures of duke Ruggero and his father holding patriarchal cross between them; AN R X (year 10). Spahr 72; MEC 14 212. Near EF, slight edge chip and a spot of encrustation. Rare. ($250)