361, Lot: 407. Estimate $200. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero II. 1130-1154. AV Tari (13mm, 1.03 g, 10h). Palermo mint. Dated AH 536 or 546 (AD 1141/2 or 1151/2). “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. VF.
From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Bowers & Ruddy (7 June 1978), lot 2332.