CNG 100, Lot: 1275. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25.5mm, 16.73 g, 12h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow; retrograde ΣEΛINO-[NTI-ON] around / River god Selinos, nude, standing left, holding in right hand a phiale over altar to left, cradling in left arm a palm branch; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis; Σ-EΛIN-OΣ around above. Schwabacher 5 (Q1/S5); HGC 2, 1220; SNG ANS 688; SNG Copenhagen 598; SNG Lloyd 1224; SNG München 880; BMC 26; Hunterian 5 (all from the same dies). Good VF, toned, usual die breaks for dies, slight roughness. Rare.

From the Friend of a Scholar Collection. Ex Auctiones 25 (19 June 1995), lot 176.