205, Lot: 488. Estimate $100. Sold for $181. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Guglielmo I il Malo (the Bad). 1154-1166. Æ Follaro (14mm, 1.27 g, 12h). Messina mint. Struck circa 1155. REX/•W• in two lines within circular frame; Kufic legend around / Bust of the Virgin with Child; pellet between them. Travaini, Monetazione, 302; Spahr 99; MEC 14, 286. VF, green patina.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.