CNG 96, Lot: 1223. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. 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, 3.02 g, 10h). Napoli (Naples) mint); Giovan Battista Ravaschieri, mintmaster. Struck 1548-1554. Laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder; (IBR) below bust / Badge of the Order of the Golden Fleece with central annulet suspended from laurel branches; annulet to left and right of branches; annulet stops. Cf. CNI XIX 674 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 37d (for type); MIR 149/4. Good VF, toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.21975).