404, Lot: 671. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ITALY, Sicilia (Regno). Federico I (Federico II, Sacro Romano Impero). 1198-1250. BI Denaro (16mm, 0.91 g, 9h). Uncertain (Brindisi or Messina) mint. Struck 1242. Large A with pellets flanking; below, star-in-upturned crescent / Cross pattée; star in second quarter; triple pellets in third quarter. Travaini 32 (Messina or Brindisi); MIR Sicilia p. 32 note (Brindisi); Spahr 123 (Messina); MEC 14, 552 (Messina?). Good VF, dark green patina.