294, Lot: 51. Estimate $150. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Litra (12mm, 0.81 g, 11h). Head of roaring lion right / River god, nude, standing left, pouring libation on altar from patera and cradling olive branch in left arm; barley grain to right. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 49; Rizzo pl. XXIII, 17–8; SNG ANS 264-8. Good VF, toned, a few marks under tone.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Gustav Philipsen Collection (Part I, J. Hirsch XV, 28 May 1906), lot 1033.