Sicily, Leontinoi, silver Tetradrachm, ex Prospero Sear Imperators 45)

Sear Imperators 45)

crowns in angles

otherwise extremely fine and very rare

well centered on a broad flan and with a fine portrait

armed bust facing

Sicily, Leontinoi, silver Tetradrachm, ex Prospero Sear Imperators 45)Sicily, Leontinoi (c. 430 425 B. C.), Silver Tetradrachm. 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, 17. 41g., 8h (Rizzo pl. XXIV, 4 (these dies); SNG ANS 257 (these dies); Boehringer, 'Zur Mnzgeschichte von Leontinoi in Klassischen Zeit', in Studies to Price, 55 (these dies)). Excellent metal, a very attractive