Watch List notes:

SICILY. Leontini. Circa 450-440 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.49 g, 4 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. ΛE-O-NT-IN-ON Head of a lion with open jaws to right; around, four barley grains. Antike Kunst (1967), pl. 52, 457 (this coin). Boehringer, Münzgeschichte, 35 (same dies). HGC 2, 667. Rizzo pl. XXIII, 2 (same obverse die). SNG ANS 221 (same obverse die). Lightly toned and from dies of fine style, with a wonderful head of Apollo and a particularly lovely reverse. Minor marks and with a faint old graffito of N on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.


From the collection of Regierungsrat Dr. iur. Hans Krähenbühl, privately acquired from Bank Leu on 13 July 1964 (with a photocopy of the original invoice enclosed).