Triton XVII, Lot: 45. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.06 g, 3h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-O-NT-IN-O-Σ and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 35–41 var. (ethnic); HGC 2, 667 var. (same); SNG ANS 231 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd –; Basel 349 (same rev. die); Rizzo pl. XXII, 26 (same rev. die). EF, toned, double struck, porous. Very rare ethnic variety.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 32 (20 October 1960), lot 42.