302, Lot: 31. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.57 g, 6h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of lion left; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); SNG ANS 257 (same dies); HGC 2, 671. Good VF, toned, removed from a mount that left the forehead and nose of Apollo flattened (or smoothed off to fit in the mount). The reverse is exceptional and would make an excellent piece of jewelry again.