LEONTINI SILVER TETRADRACHM – CLASSICAL PERIOD ISSUE EX SALTON COLLECTION – XF STAR 5/5 5/5 FINE STYLE NGC GRADED GREEK SICILY COIN (Inv. 20069)

$7,850.00

20069. SICILY. LEONTINI. Ca. 450–430 BC.
Silver Tetradrachm, 17.04 g, 25 mm.
Obv. Laureate head of Apollo right. Rev. ΛEONTINON, lion’s head right, surrounded by four barley grains.
Boehringer, Leontini, 46 (same dies); HGC 2, 667; SNG ANS 245 (same dies); SNG Lockett 798 (same dies); Gulbenkian 218 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXIII, 7 (same dies).
Ex Salton Collection, Stack’s Bowers, 1/14/2022, lot 4119 and possibly from Salton–Schlessinger FPL 16 (ca. 1950s), lot 36.
NGC graded XF STAR, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5, FINE STYLE, a coin with great eye appeal, struck from exceptionally realized dies and bearing the coveted NGC star and double 5/5 ratings.