Silver & Bronze
Lot 2472 SESSION 12 (9.30AM THURSDAY 1ST AUG) Silver & Bronze
Estimate $1,500
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SICILY, Leontini, (c.455-430 B.C.), silver tetradrachm, (16.95 g), obv. laureate head of Apollo to right, dotted border, rev. head of lion to right, around four barley grains, around **LEO NT I NON, (S.832, SNG ANS 228 [same dies], Boehringer 38 [same obverse die], Rizzo pl. 23, 2 [same obverse die]). Scrape on obverse across cheek, very dark tone, otherwise good very fine and scarce.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 117, lot 4452. Previously the Brian Bolton Collection, Noble Numismatics Sale 102, (lot 4128). From the Robert Rossini Collection.
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