328, Lot: 707. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Carlo I di Spagna (Carlo V, Sacro Romano Impero). 1516-1554. AR Mezzo Ducato (34mm, 14.30 g, 6h). Napoli (Naples) mint; Giovan Battista Ravaschieri, mintmaster. Struck 1548-1554. Laureate and cuirassed bust right, slight drapery on far shoulder; (IBR) to left / Crowned, double-headed eagle with coat-of-arms on breast. Cf. CNI XIX 266 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 14 (for type); MIR 135. Good VF, slight double strike on reverse.