219, Lot: 183. Estimate $200. Sold for $290. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. Fourrée Tetradrachm (28mm, 18.06 g, 7h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of roaring lion right, four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte -, but cf. pl. 11, 34 for similar style; cf. SNG ANS 219. VF, deposits and parts of core showing.

From the D. Alighieri Collection.