Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.22 g, 11h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-O-N-TI-N-ON around; three barley grains above, to left, and below; leaf behind. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); HGC 2, 671 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 257 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1063 (same obv. die); Basel 353 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies). EF, toned, underlying luster, minor die break on obverse (characteristic for this die, here at an early state), a few light marks.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Carl Subak in 1986.