Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.28 g, 3h). 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). Light iridescent tone, underlying luster, traces of find patina, typical die break on obverse at a very early state. Superb EF. A truly magnificent specimen; more attractive than the example we sold in Triton XXIV, lot 378, which hammered at $12,000.