318, Lot: 978. Estimate $75. Sold for $160. 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 (24mm, 3.11 g, 5h). Napoli mint; Luigi Ram, mintmaster. Struck 1528-1546. CAROLVS IIIII RO IM, crowned and cuirassed bust right; R to left; pellet to right; double annulet stops / R E X ARAGO VTRIVS (annulet) SI ET (annulet), Badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece with central annulet suspended from laurel branches; trace of rosette below; annulet to left and right of branches; double annulet stops. Cf. CNI XIX 604 (for type); Pannuti-Riccio 36b; MIR 148/2. VF, toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.9448).