Triton XX, Lot: 54. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.33 g, 4h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-O-NT-I-NO-N and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 37 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 2, 667; SNG ANS 225 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1054 (same obv. die); Dewing 626 (same obv. die); Gillet 444; Rizzo pl. XXIII, 2 (same dies). Good VF, lightly toned.

From the JMG Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear FPL 8 (Fall 2003), no. 64.