Triton XX, Lot: 57. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.03 g, 3h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LEON-TI-N-ON around; three barley grains above, to left, and below; leaf with berry to right. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 53 (same dies); HGC 2, 670 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 240–1 (same obv. die); SNG Lloyd 1060 var. (same obv. die, rev. type right); Dewing 629; Gillet 443 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 22 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, small edge split, a couple light scuffs on obverse.