CNG 88, Lot: 25. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 17.28 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). EF, some luster remaining, die break in hair and flan flaw on obverse (typical for these dies).

Ex Aureo & Calicó 219 (2 July 2009), lot 3.