Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.27 g, 5h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion left; LE-ON[TI]-N-ON and three barley grains around, [leaf to right]. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 53 (same obv. die); HGC 2, 670 (same dies as illustration); SNG ANS 240 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1060 var. (same obv. die, rev. type right); Basel –; Dewing 629; Gillet 443 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 22 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned, light scratch and area of roughness on reverse.


From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 84 (5 May 2010), lot 110.