Watch List notes:

SICILY, Leontini. Circa 476-466 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 16.61 g, 3h). Charioteer, holding kentron in right hand and reins in left, driving slow quadriga right; above, Nike flying right, crowning horses with open wreath held in both hands / Head of roaring lion right; retrograde ΛEO-NT-I-N-O and four barley grains around. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 3 (same rev. die); HGC 2, 660 (same rev. die as illustration); SNG ANS 201 (same rev. die); SNG Lloyd –; Rizzo pl. XXII, 7 (same dies). EF, toned, a couple light marks at edge on reverse. Well centered and struck.


Ex Gemini IV (10 January 2010), lot 39.