ANCIENT COINS. GREEK. Sicily, Leontinoi (c.430-425 B.C.), Silver Tetradrachm, 17.43g, 7h. Head of Apollo facing left, wearing a laurel-wreath. Rev. LEONTINON , lion’s head, with jaws open and tongue protruding, facing left, a bay-leaf behind, three barley-corns around (Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (these dies); SNG ANS 257 (these dies); Boehringer, ‘Zur Münzgeschichte von Leontinoi in Klassischen Zeit’, in Studies to Price, 55 (these dies)). A few light marks, residual lustre, extremely fine, a good example. $1,950
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