318, Lot: 980. 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 Tarì (26mm, 5.40 g, 6h). Napoli mint; Giovan Battista Ravaschieri, mintmaster. Struck 1548-1554. CAROLVS IIII ROM IMP, laureate bust right, slight drapery on shoulder; IBR monogram to left; horizontal K flanked by annulets below bust; annulet stops / R ARAGO ET VTRIVS SI R, crowned double-headed eagle with crowned coat-of-arms on breast; annulet stops. Cf. CNI XIX 438 and 442 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 24 (for type); MIR 142; otherwise, unpublished. VF, toned, porosity. Apparently unigue sigla.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.21981).