253, Lot: 9. Estimate $75. Sold for $270. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Uncertain mint. Circa 550-500 BC. AR Litra (10mm, 0.58 g). Bull’s head left / Incuse square divided into eight(?) compartments. Cf. Classical Numismatic Group 25 (24 March, 1993), lot 131 and Classical Numismatic Group E164, lot 24; otherwise unpublished. VF, find patina. Extremely rare.

The reverse pattern is clearly based on the early didrachms of Selinos type published by L. Lazzarini, “I primi oboli di Selinunte arcaica,” SNR 83 (2004), 2.