Naples and Sicily 1846 10 grana

from the Stack's Bowers February 2025 Collectors Choice sale, lot 75784

This specimen was lot 75784 in Stack's Bowers Collectors Choice Online Auction (Costa Mesa, CA, February 2025), where it sold for $85. The catalog description^[1] noted, "ITALY. Two Sicilies. 10 Grana, 1846. Ferdinand II. PCGS MS-63." This type was struck 1838-48 and is supposedly common in circulated condition. Ten grana = 1/12 of a piastra.

Recorded mintage: unknown.

Specification: 2.29 g, 0.833 fine silver, 18.5 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-328.

Source:

• Fabrizi, Davide, Monete Italiane Regionale: Napoli, Pavia: Edizioni Numismatica Varesi, 2010.
• Gigante, Fabio, Gigante 2016: Catalogo Nazionale delle Monete Italiano Dal '700 All'Euro, 24a ed. Varese, Italy, 2015.
• Montenegro, Eupremio, Montenegro 2015: Manuale del Collezionista di Monete Italiane, 30 ed., Torino, Italy: Montenegro s.a.s., 2014.
• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1801-1900, 9th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Orsini, Matt, Kyle Ponterio and Jeremy Bostwick, February 2025 World Collectors Choice Online Auction - Ancients, World Coins & World Paper Money, David B. Simpson Medals & World Coins Part 1, Selections from the Richard Margolis Collection, and Selections from the L. E. Bruun Collection, Costa Mesa, CA: Stack's Bowers Galleries, Inc., 2025.

Links to:

• 1839 10 grana, young head
• 1839 10 grana, bearded head
• 1845 3 ducati
• 1846 20 grana
• 1846 60 grana, middle bust
• 1846 piastra
• 1847 5 grana
• 1847 10 grana
• 1850 10 grana
• Coins and currency dated 1846