Triton XVII, Lot: 44. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 476-466 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 8.62 g, 8h). Nude male, holding goad in right hand and rein in left, riding horse right / Head of roaring lion right; ˜o˜5t˜-oE¬ and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 13 (same obv. die); HGC 2, 679; SNG ANS 208 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1044 (same dies); Rizzo –. VF, lightly toned, underlying luster, minor flan flaw on obverse, slight die shift on reverse.