Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 81. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. Sold For $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.22 g, 10h). 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.
From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection.
This coin was struck early in the life of the obverse die, with the characteristic die break still small.