The Lissner Collection, Lot: 533. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sardegna (Regno). Vittorio Emanuele II. As Re Eletto d’Italia, 1859-1861. AR Lira (22mm, 4.98 g, 6h). Firenze (Florence) mint; segni: Mt. Araldici/hand holding scepter. Luigi Gori, engraver. Marchese Luigi Ridolfi, director. Dated 1860. KM 9; C 85.1; Mont 115. In NGC encapsulation graded MS 64. Toned lightly over lustrous white silver. Nicest we have ever seen for type. Very seldom offered on this side of the Atlantic.