Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1864. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Carlos II lo Zoppo (the Cripple) d'Angiò. 1285-1309. AR Saluto d’argento (3.24 g, 1h). Struck 1285/90-1302. + kAROL’ · SCD’ · IЄRL’ · ЄT · SICIL’ · RЄX, coat-of-arms of Jerusalem and France / + AVЄ · GRACIA · PLЄnA · DnS · TЄCUm, the annunciation: Archangel Gabriel standing right, pointing finger at Virgin Mary, standing left, lilies in vase between. CNI XIX 8; Pannuti 2; MEC 14, 683-5; Biaggi 1629. Good VF, lightly toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

The son of Charles I d’Anjou and Beatrice de Provence, Charles II had been captured during the Sicilian Vespers and was held hostage by Pedro III de Aragon until a peace was mediated by Edward I of England, allowing Charles to go free on the condition that he convince his cousin, Charles de Valois, to renounce the kingdom of Aragon. Upon meeting with Pope Nicholas IV in 1285, Charles was absolved from the conditions of the agreement to which he swore, while Alfonso III de Aragon was excommuniated by the Pope and Charles was crowned King of Sicily in 1289. In 1295, however, Alfonso’s brother, Federico III, was crowned by the Sicilians and defended his crown through subsequent battles, relegating Charles to the kingdom of Napoli.