SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.59 g, 8h). Head of Apollo left, wearing laurel wreath / Head of roaring lion right; LE-O-N-TI-N-ON around; barley grain above, to left, and below; leaf to right. 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). Lovely iridescent cabinet tone, usual die break and a couple of light scratches under tone on obverse, minor flan flaw on reverse. EF.
From the Father & Son Collection, purchased from Peus Nachf (inv. 107880; ticket included). Ex Peus 419 (27 April 2017), lot 18; Kunst & Münzen XXVIII (18 June 1992), lot 106.