Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.98 g, 4h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; leaf to right, three barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); HGC 2, 671; Rizzo, pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies); SNG ANS 229-30 (same obv. die). EF, toned, minor die break on obverse (characteristic for this die).


From the Patrick H. James Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 217.