Triton XIV, Lot: 27. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.94 g, 8h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains and LEO-И-TI-NON around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 45 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 222-31; SNG Lloyd 1056 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 1; Basel 349; Gulbenkian 217. EF, lightly toned, a few marks.

Ex Hirsch 261 (7 May 2009), lot 76.