CNG 91, Lot: 1384. Estimate $300. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Guglielmo II il Buono (the Good). 1166-1189. AV Tarì d’oro (14mm, 2.85 g, 1h). Palermo or Messina mint. Large six-rayed star; uncertain Kufic legend in outer margin; “King Guglielmo the second powerful through God (Allah)” in Kufic in inner margin / Cross potent on shaft, pellets flanking upper bar; IC XC/NI KA across field; macrons above IC and XC. Travaini, Monetazione, 356; Spahr 102; MEC 14, 392-3. Good VF, light porosity.