335, Lot: 805. 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, 2.92 g, 12h). First Period. Napoli (Naples) mint; Giovan Battista Ravaschieri, mintmaster. Struck 1554-1556. Radiate head right; (IBR) to left; rosette and pellet below head / FIDEI/DEFEN/SOR in three lines within laurel wreath. Cf. CNI XX 308 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 15 (same); MIR 165. VF, toned, flan split.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.26674).