164, Lot: 24. Estimate $75. Sold for $71. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Uncertain mint. Circa 550-500 BC. AR Litra (11mm, 0.78 g). Bull's head left within circle of pellets / Divided incuse square. A similar piece appeared in Classical Numismatic Group 25 (24 March, 1993), lot 131. Near VF, light porosity.
The reverse pattern is clearly based on the early didrachms of Selinos; type published by L. Lazzarini, “I primi oboli di Selinunte arcaica”, SNR 83 (2004), 2.