CNG 91, Lot: 1386. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Guglielmo II il Buono (the Good). 1166-1189. AV Tarì d’oro (11mm, 1.71 g, 12h). Palermo or Messina mint. Large fleur-de-lis; uncertain Kufic legend in outer margin; “King Guglielmo the second powerful through God (Allah)” in Kufic in inner margin / Cross potent on shaft; IC XC/IH KA (
sic) across field; macrons above IC and XC. Travaini,
Monetazione, 357; cf. Spahr 105; cf. MEC 14, 394-5. VF.