387, Lot: 585. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Regno delle Due Sicilie. Gioacchino Murat. 1808-1815. Æ Medal (28mm, 8.94 g, 12h). Premium for Pupils of the Istituto Salesiano di Napoli. Napoli mint. By Rega. Dated February 1812, though probably a later restrike. GIOVACCHINO NAPOLEONE RE DELLE DUE SICILIE, head left / ISTITVTO SALESIANO, Muse Erato seated left, holding lyre; small bird perched left on extended of extended hand; Premio/delle Alunne/Febbrajo 1812 in two lines in exergue. Bramsen 1154. EF, brown surfaces, hint of underlying luster, traces of die rust, hairline die breaks. Very rare.