Lot 891
891
Sicily, Manfred, multiple Tari, 6.00g., Messina, eagle facing, its head turned right, T-O (?) above wings, most of legend off flan, rev. long cross dividing IC-XC/HI-KA, horizontal abbreviation marks, two annulets below (F. (Messina) 652b; MEC.600; Spahr, 1976, 180), fine/good fine, rare
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Sicily, Manfred, multiple Tari, 6.00g., Messina, eagle facing, its head turned right, T-O (?) above wings, most of legend off flan, rev. long cross dividing IC-XC/HI-KA, horizontal abbreviation marks, two annulets below (F. (Messina) 652b; MEC.600; Spahr, 1976, 180), fine/good fine, rare

Details
Sicily, Manfred, multiple Tari, 6.00g., Messina, eagle facing, its head turned right, T-O (?) above wings, most of legend off flan, rev. long cross dividing IC-XC/HI-KA, horizontal abbreviation marks, two annulets below (F. (Messina) 652b; MEC.600; Spahr, 1976, 180), fine/good fine, rare
Provenance
Munz Zentrum, Koln, 28 March 1984, lot 720
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

Those coins bearing horizontal rather than omega-shaped abbreviation marks are now believed to have been struck at Messina (MEC (1998) p.191)