Sale: Nomos 8, Lot: 41. Estimate CHF1500. Closing Date: Monday, 21 October 2013. Bidding Closed. |
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SICILY, Leontinoi. Circa 476-466 BC. Didrachm (Silver, 19mm, 8.54 g 5). Nude jockey on horse walking to right.
Rev. ΛΕΟΝΤΙΝΟΝ Head of lion with open jaws to right; around, four barley grains. Boehringer,
Münzgeschichte 12 (
same dies). SNG ANS 210. Toned. Some slight traces of corrosion on the obverse and evidence of overstriking on the reverse. Good very fine.
From a northern European collection, ex New York Sale XXV, 5 January 2011, 10 and from an old English collection.