335, Lot: 815. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Filippo II di Spagna. 1554-1598. AR Carlino (24mm, 2.95 g, 3h). Second Period. Napoli (Naples) mint; Germano Ravaschieri, mintmaster, Vincenzo Porzio, trial master. Dated 157Z (1572). Radiate, draped, and cuirassed bust left; (GR)/(VP) to left; quatrefoil, pellet, and date below / FIDEI/•/DEFEN/SOR • in four line; above, quatrefoil and cross pattée with pellets in angles; all within laurel wreath. Cf. CNI XX 981 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 37 (same); MIR 181/1. VF, toned.

Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.57.4419).