SICILY. Leontini. Approximately 450-440 BC. Tetradrachm (silver, 26 mm, 17.32 g, 4 h). Laureate head of Apollo to right. Rev. AE-O-N-TI-NON Head of a ion with open jaws to right; around, four barley grains. Boehringer, coin history, 45 (same obverse die). HGC 2, 667. SNG Ashmolean 1787 (same obverse die). SNG Lloyd 1056 (same obverse die). Beautifully toned and of fine style. Very light deposits, otherwise, good very fine. Ex Leu 14, 14 October 2023, 31, and previously from the collection of Prof. Dr. D. Mannsperger, privately acquired from Hess AG on 16 November 1970. This lot cannot be shipped to a US address.