Boldly Struck Alfonsino

CNG 100, Lot: 790. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Alfonso I il Magnanimo (the Magnanimous) d'Aragona. 1442-1458. AV Alfonsino – 1½ Ducati (30mm, 5.28 g, 2h). Quartered coat-of-arms of Hungary, Naples, and Jerusalem / King on horseback. CNI XIX 25/30 (for obv./rev.); Pannuti-Riccio 2; Friedberg 815. EF, lightly toned with luster. A particularly well struck and attractive specimen. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Victor England Ltd., January 1992.