From the Cain and Woodward Collections

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 53. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $7750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-440 BC. AR Didrachm (8.19 g, 1h). ΣEΛIИO^-I-OИ, Herakles standing right, holding club overhead in right hand, preparing to strike the Cretan Bull, standing right, which he holds with his left hand by a horn / HYΨ-AΣ, river god Hypsas standing left, holding branch in left hand, phiale in his right, from which he sacrifices over serpent-entwined altar to left; to right, parsley leaf above heron walking right. SNG ANS 703 (same dies); Rizzo pl. XXXI, 16 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1252 (same dies); Basel 408 (same obv. die); Jameson 723 (same obv. die). Near EF, attractively toned, light porosity.

From the James E. Cain Collection. Ex Leu 79 (31 October 2000), lot 403; A.M. Woodward Collection (Glendining, 27 September 1962), lot 69; W.H. Woodward Collection, 83.