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Auction 34  6 January 2015
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Lot 22

Estimate: 3500 USD
Price realized: 3250 USD
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ANCIENT COINS, GREEK COINS, Sicily, Leontinoi (c.430-425 BC), Silver Tetradrachm, 17.28g, 3h. Head of Apollo facing left, wearing a laurel-wreath. Rev. LEONTINON, lion's head, with jaws open and tongue protruding, facing to left, a bay-leaf behind, three barley-corns around (Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (these dies); SNG ANS 257 (these dies); Boehringer, 'Zur Münzgeschichte von Leontinoi in Klassischen Zeit', in Studies to Price, 55 (these dies)). Residual lustre beneath a light tone, extremely fine and attractive.

Estimate: $ 3,500
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