Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 440-430 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 17.17 g, 1h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion left within linear circle; retrograde LE-ON-TI-NO-N and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 51 var. (no circle on rev.; same obv. die); SNG ANS 233 var. (rev. type right; same obv. die); SNG Ashmolean 1792; SNG Lloyd 1060 var. (rev. type right; same obv. die); Gillet 448 var. (same; same obv. die); Gulbenkian –; Hunt –; Kraay & Hirmer 24 var. (no circle on rev.; same obv. die); Kunstfreund 92 var. (rev. type right; same obv. die); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 19 var. (no circle on rev.; same obv. die). VF, toned. Well centered. Very rare type with linear circle. This variety, with lion head left in circle, is missing from most collections and there are only two in CoinArchives.


Ex Leu 25 (23 April 1980), lot 55.