Lot 3150

Description

Sicily, Leontinoi, silver didrachm, (475-466 B.C.), (8.12 g), obv. naked rider, on horse walking right on ground line, dotted border, rev. lion's head to right, surrounded by four barleycorns, around legend anti-clockwise, traces of *L*EON T INON, (N reversed) (S.826, SNG Ash 1777 (same obverse die), SNG Cop. 338-339 (same obverse die), SNG ANS 209 (Pl.8, same dies), Boehringer "Leontinoi" (Essays to M.Price) No.13 (same obverse die, Pl.10), SNG Munich 543-544 (Pl.15, same obverse die). Bright, minor cleaning marks, otherwise nearly very fine and rare.

Ex Dr L.J. Sherwin Collection, previously from J. Anderson, September 18, 1985 and ex Basil Smith Collection.