Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 98. Estimate $3000. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.18 g, 8h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow;
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5oИ 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. Schwabacher 10 (Q3/S10); SNG ANS 691 (same dies); SNG Lloyd 1230/1227 (same obv./rev. die); Rizzo pl. XXXI, 13 (same obv. die); Basel 407 = SNG Lockett 361 (same obv. die); Hunterian 20 (same dies). VF, underlying luster, light scratch on obverse, die shift on reverese. Well centered and struck.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 104.