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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Sicily| > |Other Sicily| > GI86593
Leontini, Sicily, c. 455 - 430 B.C.
|Other| |Sicily|, |Leontini,| |Sicily,| |c.| |455| |-| |430| |B.C.|, Leontini was founded as by colonists from Naxos in 729 B.C., itself a Chalcidian colony established five years earlier. It was the only significant Greek settlement in Sicily not located on the coast, being some 6 miles inland. The site, originally held by the Sicels, was seized by the Greeks owing to its command of the fertile plain to the north. The city was reduced to subject status in 498 B.C. by Hippocrates of Gela, and in 476 B.C. Hieron of Syracuse moved the inhabitants from Catania and Naxos to Leontini. This coin was struck during a period of independence during which Leontini sought the support of Athens against Syracuse. In part, this request led to Athens' failed Sicilian Expeditions, after which Athens declined. Leontini was again made subject to Syracuse in 415 B.C.
GI86593. Silver litra, SNG Munchen 567 (same dies); Boehringer Leontini 58; SNG ANS 264; SNG Cop 356; SNG Lloyd 1069; BMC Sicily p. 91, 46; HGC 2 692 (R2); SNG Tubingen -, VF, attractive style, dark toning, some roughness, Leontini mint, weight 0.658g, maximum diameter 13.0mm, die axis 180o, c. 455 - 430 B.C.; obverse VEO-N (V is upside down Λ), head of roaring lion right; reverse Apollo (or river god Lissos?) standing left, nude, pouring libations from phiale over altar in right hand, laurel branch in left hand, barley kernel right; very rare; SOLD




  






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Molinari, N.J. & N. Sisci. Potamikon: Sinews of Acheloios. A Comprehensive Catalog of the Bronze Coinage of the Man-Faced Bull, With Essays on Origin and Identity. (Oxford, 2016).

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