Triton XIX, Lot: 37. Estimate $15000. Sold for $19000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.22 g, 12h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-O-N-TI-NON and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 45 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 2, 667; SNG ANS 245–7; SNG Lloyd 1056 (same obv. die); Basel –; Dewing 628; Gillet 443 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 7. Superb EF, toned.