Two Exceptional Leontini Tetradrachms

Triton XVIII, Lot: 363. Estimate $7500. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.29 g, 7h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-O-N-TI-N-ON around; three barley grains above, to left, and below; 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). Superb EF, wonderful old cabinet toning, minor die break on obverse (characteristic for this die). Early die state for obverse.

Ex Deyo Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 90, 23 May 2012), lot 352; Vecchi 8 (4 December 1997), lot 24.