Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.94 g, 1h). Head of Apollo right, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 45 (same obv. die as illustration); HGC 2, 667; SNG Lloyd 1056 (same obv. die); Gillet 443 (same dies). Toned, with a little iridescence, some light roughness, cleaning marks. VF.

From the San Vicente Collection, purchased from Dr. Arnold Saslow, June 1997.