Watch List notes:

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Ruggero II. 1130-1154. AV Tari (13mm, 1.03 g, 10h). Palermo mint. Dated AH 536 or 546 (AD 1141/2 or 1151/2). "The king Ruggero exalted in God" in Kufic around central pellet-in-annulet; mint and date formula in margin / Cross-tipped sceter; IC-XC/NI-KA across field; mint and date formula in margin. Travaini, Monetazione 216; Spahr 63; cf. MEC 14, 201-4; Friedberg 877. VF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Bowers & Ruddy (7 June 1978), lot 2332.