Fine Style Leontini Tetradrachm

Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 278. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $6300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.61 g, 5h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte pl. 12, 41 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 1 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 222 (same dies). EF, toned.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 40 (16 May 2007), lot 234.