From the Hermitage Collection

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 38. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.41 g, 12h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains and LEO-N-TI-NO-N around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 40 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 229-30 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1055; Rizzo pl. XXIII, 1 (same obv. die); Jameson 629 (same rev. die); SNG München 556 (same rev. die). EF, attractively toned, minor die break on obverse.

Ex R. Maly Collection (LHS, 23 April 2007), lot 162; Hermitage Collection (Schlessinger 13, 4 February 1935), lot 282.