389, Lot: 1089. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero II. Conte, 1105-1130. Æ Follaro (20mm, 5.75 g, 6h). Messina mint. Struck 1112-1127. Ruggero seated facing, holding cross-tipped scepter, cross composed of four pellets; to right, traces of Я/–/II / Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; CE (retrograde S)/(ligate [retrograde S]V). Cf. Travaini, Monetazione, 174; cf. Spahr 49; cf. MEC 14, 154-60 (all refs for type). Near VF, dark green patina, light roughness.

From the David Wray Collection, purchased from Colosseum Coin Exchange.