Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 209. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $3120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 g, 3h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; three barley grains around, leaf behind. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies); SNG ANS 257 (same dies). EF, toned, usual obverse die flaw, small cut across hair of Apollo.