318, Lot: 968. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Ferdinando I (Don Ferrante). 1458-1494. AR Carlino (27mm, 3.57 g, 2h). First Coinage. Napoli (Naples) mint; Salvatore Miraballo, mintmaster. Struck 1458-1459. + FЄRDInAnDVS DЄ G R SI IЄ Vn, royal coat-of-arms; double annulet stops / + DnS m AIVT ЄGO DЄ In mЄ, Ferdinando, seated facing on throne with lion rampant supports; M (mintmaster initial) to left; double annulet stops. Cf. CNI XIX 682; cf. Pannuti-Riccio 21d; MIR 72/4; cf. MEC 14, 951 (all refs. for type). VF, toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.26653).