Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 86. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Litra (0.82 g, 12h). Head of roaring lion right; LEO-N around / River god, nude, standing left, pouring libation on altar from patera held in right hand, and cradling olive branch in left arm; barley grain to right. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 49; SNG ANS 264-8; SNG Lloyd 1069; Rizzo pl. XXIII, 17-8. EF, attractively toned. Excellent metal for issue.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.