328, Lot: 726. Estimate $200. Sold for $130. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Filippo II di Spagna. 1554-1598. AR Mezzo Ducato (34mm, 13.26 g, 12h). First Period. Napoli (Naples) mint; Giovan Battista Ravaschieri, mintmaster. Struck 1554-1556. Bareheaded, armored, and draped bust right; (IBR) to left, three pellets below bust / Crowned coat-of-arms within ornate frame. Cf. CNI XX 138 (for type, but without pellets); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 5 (same); MIR 160. VF, flan crack, light roughness.