294, Lot: 49. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.20 g, 1h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 36 (same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXII, 26; SNG ANS 231 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, minor porosity and a few pits.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Egger XLV (12 November 1913), lot 288.