Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 88. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 476-468 BC. AR Didrachm (8.21 gm, 11h). Rider on horseback right / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 12 (same dies); SNG ANS 210 (same rev. die); Rizzo pl. XXII, 20 (same dies); Rosen 59 (this coin). Near VF, toned, light porosity, scratch in obverse field. ($600)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Johnathan P. Rosen Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 72, 6 October 1987), lot 453.