Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 277. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.06 g, 6h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of roaring lion right; tripod behind, three barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte pl. 12, 33 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 13 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 232 (same dies). VF, toned.

From the J. Olphin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 60 (22 May 2002), lot 171; Classical Numismatic Group XXVI (11 June 1993), lot 215.