Watch List notes:

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Filippo II di Spagna. 1554-1598. AR Carlino (23mm, 2.98 g, 11h). First Period. Napoli (Naples) mint. Struck 1554-1556. PHILIP • REX • ANG • FR • NE • P • H, crowned head right; (IBR) to left; below head, large pellet surrounded by four smaller pellets / •FID•/•EI • DE•/•/•FENSO•/•R• in five lines within laurel wreath. Cf. CNI XX 299 (for type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 15 (for type). Deeply toned. Good VF.


Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 1197; Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.1634).