CNG 102, Lot: 109. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.29 g, 10h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; leaf to right, three barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); HGC 2, 671; SNG ANS 229-30 (same obv. die); Rizzo, pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies). EF, toned, flan a little irregular, minor die break on obverse (characteristic for this die).

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection.