CNG 102, Lot: 107. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.09 g, 10h). 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. Near EF, toned.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Gemini V, 6 January 2009), lot 436; Sternberg XX (20 April 1988), lot 284.