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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 4995072, member: 86498&quot;]I would think that there are some hundreds of this die combination. I found over 200 on a very basic search on AC Search and I know that there are probably a lot more. Before the Athena Fund II sale in 1993 offered by Sotheby&#039;s this coinage was considered rather scarce. However with the liquidation of this fund a very large number of the coins were placed on the market, including some which were sold in bulk lots. My coin came from one of these bulk lots.</p><p>Leontini Ar Tetradrachm 440-430 B.C. Obv. Head of Apollo left.&nbsp; Rv Head of roaring lion left. 17.34 grms 25 mm Photo by W. Hansen[ATTACH=full]1199501[/ATTACH] What makes this particular group of coins interesting is that the characteristic die deterioration evident on the obverse is common to virtually all specimens. In fact when I still owned a copy of that sale I was actually able to determine something of the order that each specimen was struck because of the progressive nature of these die problems. This hoard must have been put in the ground within weeks of these coins being minted.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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