Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1813. Estimate $100.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GERMANY, Nördlingen (Reichsmünzstätte). Karl V (I von Spanien). as Holy Roman Emperor, 1519-1556. AR Halbbatzen (1.79 g, 12h). Dated 1527. · KAROLVS · ROMANO · IMP · (rosette stops), crowned and armored bust right, holding lis-tipped scepter and globus cruciger / + MONETA · NOVA · NORDLING · (rosette stops), civic coat-of-arms of Nördlingen. Schulten 2424. Good VF, toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

The current king of Spain, Carlos I was the final emperor to receive a papal coronation when he was crowned by Pope Clement VII at Bologna in 1519. Inheriting the Habsburg possessions upon the death of his grandfather, Maximilian, he united the territories within the Holy Roman Empire with his Spanish lands, creating an empire which stood as the pinnacle of Hapsburg power and which would not be equaled by any of his successors.