Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 65. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-413 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 gm, 3h). Laureate head of Apollo left / LE-O-[N]-TI-NON, head of roaring lion left, three barley grains around; leaf behind. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); SNG ANS 257 (same dies); cf. SNG Copenhagen 349; Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1063 (same obverse die); Basel 353 (same dies). EF, toned, small die break in hair. ($2500)