CNG 94, Lot: 98. Estimate $1000. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (22mm, 8.28 g, 11h). Herakles standing right, holding club overhead, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds by a horn / River god Hypsas standing left, holding branch and phiale from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, selinon leaf above heron walking right. HGC 2, 1224; SNG ANS 707 (same dies). VF, toned, scrape under tone on obverse.

From the Daniel Koppersmith Collection. Ex Artemide 9E (3 July 2011), lot 9062.