A beautiful Tetadrachm from Leontini
Lot 37
SICILY. Leontini. Circa 430-425 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 25 mm, 16.51 g, 7 h). Laureate head of Apollo to left. Rev. 𐤋E-O-N-TI-N-ON Head of a lion with open jaws to left; above, to left and below, three barley grains; to right, laurel leaf. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte, 55 (same dies). HGC 2, 671. Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (same dies). SNG ANS 257 (same dies). A sharply struck and very attractive example. Minor deposits and with the usual small die breaks on the obverse and traces of overstriking on the reverse, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the collection of Kurt Zimmermann (* 1937) of Winterthur, long-serving numismatist at Schweizerische Kreditanstalt and Leu Numismatik, privately acquired from C. Ceylan (Athena) in December 1985.
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Closing time: 13-Dec-25, 12:18:00 CET
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