389, Lot: 35. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.89 g, 9h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; three barley grains around, leaf to right. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 53 (same obv. die); HGC 2, 670 (same obv. die as illustration). VF, toned, slightly weak strike, deposits on reverse.

From the JMG Collection, purchased from Artemission, February 2011.