Ex Kunstfreund

Triton XIV, Lot: 28. Estimate $7500. Sold for $60000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.92 g, 12h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LEON-TI-NON around; all within linear circle surrounded by four barley grains. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 51 var. (same obv. die; rev. type left with no circle); SNG ANS 233 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1060 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 20 (same dies); Basel 351 var. (same obv. die; rev. type left with no circle); Gulbenkian -; Kunstfreund 92 (this coin). EF, toned.

Ex Leu 38 (13 May 1986), lot 25; Kunstfreund [Gillet] (Leu & Münzen und Medaillen, 28 May 1974), lot 92.