SICILY, Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 17.49 g, 8h). Laureate head of Apollo left / Head of roaring lion right; LEO N TI NOI and three barley grains around, leaf behind. 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). EF, toned, usual obverse die flaws.
From the Byron Schieber Collection.
