Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 64. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 476-468 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.04 gm, 2h). Charioteer driving quadriga right, holding kentron in right hand, reins in both; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses / LE-O-N-TI-NON, head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 21 (same obverse die); Randazzo 85 (same dies); SNG ANS 206 (same obverse die); SNG Copenhagen 336; Rizzo pl. XXII, 21 (same dies). EF, find patina, patches of light roughness, obverse die flaw. Rare die variety. ($3000)

From the Tony Hardy Collection.