CNG 97, Lot: 30. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.07 g, 10h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; leaf to right, three barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies as illustration); Rizzo, pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies); HGC 2, 671. Good VF, toned, some roughness, usual die break on obverse.

Ex Spink 170 (6 October 2004), lot 7.