Watch List notes:

SICILY. Leontini. Circa 466-460 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 26 mm, 17.23 g, 3 h), struck with dies by the Demareteion Master. Quadriga, driven by a male charioteer wearing a long chiton, moving slowly to the right; above, Nike flying left to crown the charioteer; in exergue, lion running to right. Rev. ΛΕΟΝΤΙ - [ΝΟ]- Ν Laureate head of Apollo to right, his long hair braided and tied up at the back of his head and with a long lock falling down behind his ear; to left and right, and above Apollo's head, laurel leaf; below neck, lion running to right. Buceti 15. Rizzo pl. XIV, 14 (obverse) and 15 (reverse). SNG ANS 218 (same dies). SNG Lloyd 1046 (this coin). Very rare. A powerful and dramatic coin with a dark toning. Minor areas of flat striking and traces of corrosion, otherwise, about extremely fine.
Ex Leu Numismatics 77, 11 May 2000, 88, and Hess-Leu [19], 12 April 1962, 66, from the collections of the British Museum and A. H. Lloyd, F. S. Benson, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 8 February 1909, 214 and Sir E. Bunbury, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 15 July 1896, 327 .