SICILY. Leontinoi. Circa 450-440 BC. Litra (Silver, 12.5 mm, 0.90 g, 9 h). VΕΟ-Ν Lion's head to right, with open jaws and protruding tongue; border of dots. Rev. Laureate figure of Apollo, nude, standing to left, holding a laurel branch with his left hand and pouring a libation, from a phiale held in his right, on an altar to the left; in the field to right, barley grain. Boehringer, Münzgeschichte 50. Buceti 34. SNG ANS 264. SNG Fitzwilliam 1054. A particularly attractive, nicely toned example, with a wonderful obverse. Reverse struck from a slightly worn die and with traces of corrosion under the toning, otherwise, extremely fine.

From the "Collection sans Pareille" of Ancient Greek Fractions, from the collection of Leo Mildenberg, ex Kricheldorf 32, 14 November 1977, 390.