Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.53 g, 1h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion left; leaf to right, three barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 55 (same dies); HGC 2, 671; SNG ANS 229-30 (same obv. die); Rizzo, pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies). Lightly toned, underlying luster, usual die break on obverse. EF. Interesting flan sprue.


From the San Vicente Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, November 1994.