325, Lot: 836. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Tancredi. 1189-1194. AV Tarì d’oro (12mm, 1.41 g, 11h). Class A. Messina mint. Large A; uncertain Kufic legend in outer margin; “King Tancredi the magnificent” in Kufic in inner margin / Cross potent on shaft, annulets flanking upper bar; IC XC/HI KA (sic) across field; macrons above IC and XC. Travaini, Monetazione, 386; Spahr 134; cf. MEC 14, 439 (for type). VF, some roughness.