318, Lot: 990. Estimate $100. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Filippo II di Spagna. 1554-1598. AR Carlino (22mm, 2.41 g, 4h). Second Period. Napoli (Naples) mint; Germano Ravaschieri, mintmaster; Vincenzo Porzio, trial master. Dated 1577. PHILIP D G REX ARA VTR SI 1577, radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left; GR/(VP) to to right / FIDEI/DEFEN/SOR in four lines; above, cross fourchée with pellets in angles flanked by quadrilobes; all within wreath. Cf. CNI XX 1099 (for type); Pannuti-Riccio –; MIR 181/3. VF, toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.26672).