CNG 84, Lot: 111. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.39 g, 3h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; three barley grains around, leaf behind. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies); SNG ANS 257 (same dies). Near EF, some luster remaining, die break in hair and flan flaw on obverse. Well struck.