SICILY, Leontini. Circa 455-425 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.55 g, 1h). Laureate head of Apollo right / Head of roaring lion right; four barley grains around. Maltese Period III, 114p (D29/R87 – this coin); HGC 2, 667; SNG ANS 238 (same dies); SNG Ashmolean 1790 (same dies). Deeply toned, much find patina, roughness, scratches and scrapes. VF.
From the Henry A. Sauter Collection. Ex Migul Muñoz Collection (Part II, Superior, 4 June 1979), lot 1346; Superior (7 December 1972), lot 83.
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