294, Lot: 53. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 425-420 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.19 g, 7h). Laureate head of Apollo right; ivy leaf and berry behind neck / Head of lion left; three barley grains around; below, fish left. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 62/61 (same obv./rev. dies); Rizzo pl. XXIV, 9/8 (same obv./rev. dies); SNG ANS 251 (same dies). VF, toned, some porosity, scrape on face of Apollo. Fine style.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Egger (10 December 1906), lot 106.