452, Lot: 79. Estimate $500. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.48 g, 8h). Laureate head of Apollo right; olive spray behind neck / Head of roaring lion right; three barley grains around, mullet (chelon labrosus) below. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 62 var. (same dies); HGC 2, 674; Basel 354 (same dies); Gillet 652 (same dies). Toned, traces of find patina, rough surfaces on obverse. VF.

From the John L. Cowan Collection, purchased from Collector Galleries, 29 May 1997.