Naples and Sicily 1855 120 grana Dav-175
This specimen was lot 23096 in Stack's Bowers ANA sale (Las Vegas, August 2020), where it sold for $204. The catalog description[1] noted, "ITALY. Naples & Sicily. 120 Grana, 1855. Ferdinand II. PCGS MS-62 Gold Shield. A sharply struck coin with mottled silvery to dark gray toning and a faint turquoise hue in the obverse peripheral lettering. From the Jasmine Collection." This sixth type of piastra was issued 1851-59 for Ferdinand II. These large silver coins are priced fairly low in the SCWC but do not turn up often. The Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was annexed to Italy in 1860 but remains poor, backward and corrupt.
Recorded mintage: unknown.
Specification: 27.53 g, 0.833 fine silver, 37 mm diameter, lettered edge.
Catalog reference: KM-370; Dav-175; F-503.
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- [1]Orsini, Matt, Richard Ponterio and Kyle Ponterio, The August 2020 ANA Auction: World Coins, featuring the Duke of Lansing Collection, Santa Ana, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2020.
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