Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 17.26 g, 10h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LEO-NT-I-NO-N and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 38 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 2, 667; SNG ANS 228 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1053; Basel 349; Dewing –; Gillet 441; Rizzo pl. XXIII, 2. Good VF, toned.


From the Leonidion Collection. Ex Ponterio 151 (12 November 2009), lot 8018.