455, Lot: 21. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 16.96 g, 7h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of roaring lion right, four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 41; HGC 2, 667. Toned, slight roughness, light scratch on reverse. VF.

From the J.B. Collection, purchased Spring 1999.