Watch List notes:

ITALY, Napoli (Regno). Filippo II di Spagna. 1554-1598. AR Ducato (38mm, 29.91 g, 8h). Second Period. Napoli (Naples) mint. Struck 1556-1598. • PHILIPPVS • REX ARAGON • VTRI •, bareheaded, armored, and draped bust right; (IBR) to left; • (rosette) • below bust / HILΛ/RITΛS/•/VNIVER/SΛ in five lines within double linear border; all within laurel wreath with central rosette. Cf. CNI XX 355/356 (for obv./rev. type); cf. Pannuti-Riccio 10 (for type). Good VF, toned, some die polishing marks and areas of weak strike.


Ex Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.18320).