Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 1869. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Ferdinando I (Don Ferrante). 1458-1494. AR Carlino (3.53 g, 2h). Salvatore Miraballo, mintmaster. Struck 1458-circa 1462. + FЄRDInAnDVS : D : G : R : SI · I : V (double annulet stops), coat-of-arms containing arms of Aragon, Naples, Jerusalem, and Hungary / + : DnS : m : AIVT : ЄT : ЄGO : D : In : m : (annulet and double annulet stops), Ferdinando seated facing, holding scepter and globus cruciger; M to left, lions to lower left and right. CNI XIX 699 var. (obv. legend); Pannuti 21d; MEC 14, 949 var. (rev. legend); Biaggi 1677. VF, lightly toned.

From the Leonard O. Greenfield Collection.

The son of Alfonso V de Aragon and his mistress, Ferdinando was married to Isabella di Taranto in order to strengthen his legtimacy, though Pope Calixtus III declared the Argonese line extinct and the kingdom of Naples a fief of the church. With the help of Alessandro Sforza and Skanderbeg, he was able to reclaim his authority within the kingdom until a short-revolt of the nobility in 1485, supported in part by Pope Innocent VIII.