267, Lot: 22. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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SICILY, Selinos. Circa 455-409 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 17.21 g, 10h). Artemis, holding reins in both hands, and Apollo, drawing bow, in quadriga right; barley grain in exergue / River god Selinos, nude, standing facing, head left, holding phiale over lighted altar and cradling filleted palm branch; to left, rooster standing left before altar; to right, selinon leaf above bull standing left on basis. Schwabacher 26 (Q8/S20); SNG ANS 699 (same obv. die). VF.
Ex Elsen 107 (11 December 2010), lot 62; Elsen 85 (10 September 2005), lot 40.