318, Lot: 981. 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 (23mm, 3.07 g, 4h). Napoli mint; Giovan Battista Ravaschieri, mintmaster. Struck 1548-1554. CAROLVS IIIII (annulet) ROM IMP, laureate bust right, slight drapery on shoulder; (IBR) to left; trace of lis and annulet below bust / REX ARAGO ET VTRIVS, Badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece with central pellet annulet suspended from crossed laurel branches; annulet above; annulets flanking branches; annulet stops. Cf. CNI XIX 692 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 37d (for type); MIR 149/4. Good VF, toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.21976).