Sicily, Leontini, AR Tetradrachm, 430-425BC (25mm, 17.46g)

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Sicily, Leontini, AR Tetradrachm, 430-425BC (25mm, 17.46g). Obverse: Laureate head of APollo facing l. Reverse: Lion head facing left. SNG ANS-257.

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First round of “Subscription” coins. Last day available is 2/15!

Sicily, Leontini, AR Tetradrachm, 430-425BC (25mm, 17.46g). Obverse: Laureate head of APollo facing l. Reverse: Lion head facing left. SNG ANS-257.

First round of “Subscription” coins. Last day available is 2/15!

Sicily, Leontini, AR Tetradrachm, 430-425BC (25mm, 17.46g). Obverse: Laureate head of APollo facing l. Reverse: Lion head facing left. SNG ANS-257.

Lentini (pronounced [lenˈti.ni]; Sicilian: Lintini; Latin: Leontīnī; Ancient Greek: Λεοντῖνοι) is a town and comune in the Province of Syracuse, southeastern Sicily (Southern Italy), located 35 km (22 miles) north-west of Syracuse.

The city was founded by colonists from Naxos as Leontini in 729 BC,^[4] which in its beginnings was a Chalcidian colony established five years earlier in Magna Graecia.

It is virtually the only Greek settlement in Sicily that is not located on the coast, founded around 10 km inland. The site, originally held by the Sicels, was seized by the Greeks owing to their command on the fertile plain in the north.^[4] The city was reduced to subject status in 494 BC by Hippocrates of Gela,^[5] who made his ally Aenesidemus its tyrant.^[6] In 476 BC, Hieron of Syracuse moved the inhabitants from Catana and Naxos to Leontini.^[4]^[5]