98, Lot: 218. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGDOM of SICILY. Frederick II, as Holy Roman Emperor. 1197-1250 AD. BI Denaro (16mm, 0.45 gm). Messina or Palermo mint. Struck 1220/1 AD. Crowned bust of emperor facing, holding sceptre and globus cruciger / Small vioded cross pattée; crescent in second quarter; annulets in remaining quarters. Spahr -; Lucia Travaini, "Hohenstaufen and Angevin denari of Sicily and Southern Italy: their mint attributions, " NumChron 1993, pg. 113, 20; MEC 14 -. VF, black patina. Extremely rare; third known specimen.