361, Lot: 406. Estimate $200. Sold for $280. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero II. 1130-1154. AV Tari (13mm, 0.72 g, 11h). Palermo mint. Dated AH 536 (AD 1141/2). “The king Ruggero exalted in God” in Kufic around central pellet-in-annulet; mint and date formula in margin / Cross-tipped sceter; IC-XC/NI-KA across field; mint and date formula in margin. Travaini, Monetazione 216; Spahr 63; cf. MEC 14, 201-4; Friedberg 877. Good VF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Lepczyk 56 (15 March 1984), lot 1066.