SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.05 g, 6h). 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). Untouched find patina, usual die break on obverse. EF.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXIII (15 March 1995), lot 114; CNG inventory 84755 (November 1994).