Century-old Pedigree // Schwabacher Plate Coin

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 91. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $5400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.91 g, 4h). Artemis driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo drawing bow / River god Selinos standing left, holding phiale over canopied altar, cradling palm frond in left arm; to left, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 15i (Q4/S15; this coin [reverse illustrated]); SNG ANS 692; Berlin 577 (same dies); BMC 29 (same dies); Ward 236 (same dies). VF, attractive old collection toning.

From the Paul H. Gerrie Collection. Ex Pegasi VI (8 April 2002), lot 98; Naville V (18 June 1923), lot 1007; Sambon & Canessa (18 November 1907), lot 733.