Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 17.46 g, 2h). 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). Toned, only a hint of the typical die break on all obverses of this issue. Superb EF.


From the Alan J. Harlan Collection. Ex Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection (Gemini VII, 9 January 2011), lot 127 (hammer $11000).