SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.23 g, 12h).

CNG Feature Auction 118
Lot: 60. Estimated: $ 3 000

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 5 500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.23 g, 12h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LEON-TI-NON around; all within linear circle surrounded by four barley grains. Cf. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 51 (same obv. die, but rev. type left with no circle); SNG ANS 233 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1060 (same dies); Athena Fund II 211 (same dies); Gillet 448 = Kunstfreund 92 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 20 (same dies). Even gray tone with golden hues, a little die rust on obverse. Good VF.

From the Father & Son Collection. Ex Triton XXII (8 January 2019), lot 123; Lanz 78 (25 November 1996), lot 147.


The final winners of all CNG Feature Auction 118 lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 13-14 September 2021. CNG Feature Auction 118 – Session One – Greek Coinage Part 1 will be held Monday morning, 13 September 2021 beginning at 9:00 AM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.