318, Lot: 989. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Filippo II di Spagna. 1554-1598. AR Carlino (24mm, 2.85 g, 11h). Second Period. Napoli (Naples) mint; Germano Ravaschieri, mintmaster; Vincenzo Porzio, trial master. Dated 1575. PHILIP • D G REX ARA • VTR • SIC • 1575 •, radiate bust right, slight drapery on shoulder; GR to left; (VP) at point of bust / FIDEI/DEFEN/SOR in four lines; above, cross fourchée with pellets in angles flanked by pellets; all within wreath. CNI XX –; Pannuti-Riccio 40b corr. ([VP] below bust]); MIR 182/10 corr. (same). VF, toned, edge a bit ragged. Rare.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.57.4421).