Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 192. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002. Sold For $720. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 460-440 BC. AR Didrachm (8.21 gm). Nude Herakles subduing the Cretan bull / Nude figure of river-god Hypsas standing left, holding phiale over canopied altar in right hand and branch in left; serpent coiled around altar, heron and selinon leaf to right. SNG ANS 704 (same dies); Rizzo pl. 31, 16 (same obverse die); SNG Lloyd 1243 (same reverse die). VF, worn obverse die. ($1000)