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Auction: 19004 - Coins and Commemorative Medals: Spring Auction
Lot: 847

Sicily, Leontinoi (c. 450-420 BC), AR Tetradrachm, 17.32g, laureate head of Apollo left, rev. lion's head left, with jaws open and tongue protruding; laurel leaf and barley-corns around (Boehringer 55, same dies; Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4, same dies; SNG {ANS} 257, same dies), some surface encrustation to periphery, and a minor striking split at 7 o'clock, otherwise extremely fine or near so

provenance
Morton & Eden 59, 13 November 2012, lot 739
Denyse Bérend collection (assembled prior to 1985), author of SNG ANS III - Sicily: Syracuse to Siceliotes, Volume 3

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Sold for
£2,200