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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 377

Estimate: 1500 USD
Price realized: 2000 USD
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SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Drachm (18mm, 4.15 g, 12h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-ON to right, three barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 54 (same dies); HGC 2, 688 (same obv. die as illustration); SNG ANS 258 (same dies); Basel 352 = Kraay & Hirmer 25 (same dies); Gulbenkian 214 (same dies); Jameson 633 (same dies); Rhousopoulos 330 (this coin); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 23 (same dies). Old cabinet tone, trace deposits, light scratches under tone. VF. Rare.

From the Weise Collection. Ex Peus 380 (3 November 2004), lot 204; Prof. Ernst Langlotz Collection (Auctiones AG 23, 17 June 1993), lot 227; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 935; Athanasios Rhousopoulos Collection (J. Hirsch XIII, 15 May 1905), lot 330.
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