Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 285. Estimate $2000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009. Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (17.00 g, 1h). Artemis, holding reins, driving quadriga left; beside her, Apollo standing left, drawing bow; barley grain in exergue / Selinos standing left, holding palm frond and phiale over altar to left; before altar, cock standing left; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 31 (Q9/S22); SNG ANS 700; Hunterian 7; Hirsch 529 (all from the same dies). VF, toned, die shift on reverse.
From the J. Olphin Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XVIII (3 December 1991), lot 38.