Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 54. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.07 g, 10h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving quadriga right; beside her, Apollo standing right, drawing bow; barley grain in exergue /
SELINONTI-ON, river god Selinos, nude, standing facing, head left, holding in right hand a phiale over lighted altar, cradling in left arm a palm branch decorated with filet; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 23 (Q7/S19); SNG ANS 697 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1235 (same rev. die); Rizzo pl. 33, 1 (same rev. die); Basel -; McClean 2577 (same dies). Good VF, faint graffiti in field above quadriga. Well centered and evenly struck.