Watch List notes:

ITALY, Milano (Duchi). Carlo I di Spagna (Carlo V, Sacro Romano Impero). 1535-1554. AR Mezzo Scudo (34mm, 16.95 g, 10h). Dated 1552. (quatrefoil) IMP · CAES · CAROLVS · V · AVG, laureate and cuirassed bust right; K behind / (quatrefoil) CVIQ3 SVVM (quatrefoil), crowned eagle standing left on thunderbolt and olive branch, head right, with wings displayed; divided globe below; 15 5(retrograde Z) flanking globe. CNI V 4; Crippa 6/A. Near EF, toned. Well struck from fresh dies, rare thus.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 69 (4 December 2012), lot 590; Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.1629).