Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 83. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.23 g, 6h). Laureate head of Apollo right; ivy spray behind / Head of roaring lion right; three barley grains around, mullet (chelon labrosus) below. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 62 (same dies); SNG ANS 253 (same dies). VF, toned, minor light deposits. Rare type with mullet.