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59, Lot: 196. Estimate $200.
Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicily. Frederic II. 1197-1250. Billon Mezzo Denaro (15mm, 0.46 gm). Messina mint, struck circa 1220. +FRIDERICVS, eagle displayed, head left / +IMPERATOR, cross. Cf Spahr 106 (denaro); Biaggi 1253 (denaro). Good VF, dark brown patina. Unpublished fractional denaro.

Most of Frederic's denaros from Messina have associated halves, so it is logical to assume that this issue, the first to employ his title of emperor, would have one also.