Tetradrachm

Leontini's tetradrachms of this period were struck at a Sicilian Greek city that maintained a fiercely independent monetary tradition despite persistent pressure from Syracuse, its dominant neighbor to the south. The city's mint was active only during intervals of genuine political autonomy — issues like this one effectively mark moments when Leontini was not under Syracusan control.

The "var." citations against Boehringer, SNG ANS, and Gulbenkian suggest a die pairing not precisely matched in any single reference corpus — unsurprising given how closely related obverse and reverse dies were shared, rotated, and reused across this series.