Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25mm, 16.61 g 9). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. VΕ-ΟΝΤΙΝΟ-Ν Lion's head with open jaws to right; above, below and to right, barley grain; to left, tripod. Boehringer 33. SNG ANS 232 var. A lovely, toned coin with a particularly elegant early classical head of Apollo. Some very minor surface roughness, otherwise, extremely fine.


From a German collection formed in the 1990s.