Leontini

Mints

SILVER IDUnique ID of the page ^ᵖ: 408

The mint at the ancient site of Leontini in Sicily.

Die Studies

Item	Image	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	WeightCarter 1983 * Median weight * 20000 (*10 if gold or electrum)
Leontini, silver, tetradrachms (quadriga/head of lion with four barley grains) (476-466 BCE)		Silver	4,321 kg
Leontini, silver, tetradrachms (quadriga/head of Artemis) (466-455 BCE)		Silver	358 kg
Leontini, silver, tetradrachms (quadriga/head of Apollo with three leaves) (466-455 BCE)		Silver	660 kg
Leontini, silver, tetradrachms (Apollo/head of lion with one leave and three ears of barley) (445-425 BCE)		Silver	5,556 kg
Leontini, silver, tetradrachms (Apollo/lion with lyra and three ears of barley) (430-425 BCE) Fischer-Bossert		Silver	323 kg
Leontini, silver, tetradrachms (Apollo with long hair/head of lion with one leave and three ears of barley) (425-415 BCE)		Silver	2,301 kg
Leontini (Campanian mercenaries), bronze, tetrantes, ca 14.7g (Zeus/thunderbolt) (344-338 BCE)		Bronze

Overstriking coins

Item	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety
27289 - Leontini (tetradrachm quadriga/head of lion) over uncertain type (Numismatica Ars Classica, 33, Apr. 2006, 73)		Silver	475 BC JL
19551 - Leontini (tetradrachm Apollo/lion) over Selinus (biga/Selinos) (Künker, 143, Oct. 2008, 80)		Silver	455 BC JL
21034 - Leontini (tetradrachm Apollo/lion) over Catana (Apollo/biga) (Italia, priv. coll. - Garraffo 1984, pl. XVII, 4)		Silver	455 BC JL
2069 - Leontini (tetradrachm Apollo/lion) over Catana (Apollo/biga) (Gorny & Mosch, 180, Oct. 2009, 31)		Silver	455 BC JL
2146 - Leontini (tetradrachm Apollo/lion) over Selinus (biga/Selinos) (Gemini, 9, Jan. 2012, 3)		Silver	455 BC JL
2259 - Leontini (tetradrachm Apollo/lion) over Gela (New York, ANS, 1957.172.584)		Silver	455 BC JL
2704 - Leontini (tetradrachm Apollo/lion) over Catana (man-faced bull/Nike) (Vienna, KM, GR 6537)		Silver	455 BC JL

Overstruck coins

Item	Overstruck typeImage of the overstruck variety	MetalThe physical material (usually metal) from which an object is made.	DateIdentifies the initial date in a range assigned in a numismatic context.	Overstriking coinImage of the overstriking coin
21068 - Messana (tetradrachm biga/hare) over Leontini (biga/Apollo) (New York, ANS - Garraffo 1984, pl. XVII, 11)		Silver	480 BC JL
21072 - Messana (tetradrachm biga/hare) over Leontini (biga/Apollo) (Stack's Bowers Galleries, Aug. 2017, 20004)		Silver	480 BC JL
18120 - Croton (nomos tripod/incuse tripod) over Leontini (horseman/lion) (Bertolami, ACR 9, April 2014, 81)		Silver	480 BC JL
2618 - Caulonia (nomos Apollo/stag) over Leontini (horseman/lion) (Berlin, MK - Noe 1957, pl. X, d)		Silver	475 BC JL

Description

Nomisma IDNomisma ID	leontini
Definition:	The mint at the ancient site of Leontini in Sicily.
Pleiades IDUnique ID of the Pleiades place resource	462279
Ancient regionAncient region.	Sicily Nomisma: magna_graecia, Nomisma: sicily
Modern countryModern country	Italy
CoordinatesGeographical coorindates	37.285478° N, 14.998115° E
Links	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lentini https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462279 http://sws.geonames.org/10401900/ http://collection.britishmuseum.org/id/place/x49632 http://vocab.getty.edu/tgn/7003800

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Literature

• Fischer-Bossert 2016
• Garraffo 1984
• Maltese 2023

Authors

• Wolfgang Fischer-Bossert
• Salvatore Garraffo
• Sebastiano Maltese