318, Lot: 26. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.53 g, 5h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion right; three barley grains around, leaf behind. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); HGC 2, 671 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 257 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1063 (same obv. die); Basel 353 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies). Good VF, edge split, usual minor die flaws in hair of Apollo.