318, Lot: 977. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Carlo I di Spagna (Carlo V, Sacro Romano Impero). 1516-1554. AR Carlino (25mm, 3.05 g, 4h). Napoli mint; Luigi Ram, mintmaster. Struck 1528-1546. CAROLVS IIIII RO IM, crowned and cuirassed bust right; R to left; double annulet stops / R E X ARAGO VTRIVS SI ET, badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece with central annulet suspended from laurel branches; rosette below; annulet to left and right of branches; double annulet stops. CNI XIX 604; Pannuti-Riccio 36b; MIR 148/2. VF, toned. An attractive example of this type.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.1655).