Triton XVI, Lot: 215. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.29 g, 10h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains and L-E-O-N-T-IN-ON around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 41; Rizzo pl. XXIII, 1; SNG ANS 224; SNG Lloyd 1055; Dewing 627 (all from the same obv. die). EF, attractive light cabinet toning. Well centered and struck from artistic dies.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 36 (5 December 1996), lot 1755.