294, Lot: 70. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SICILY, Segesta. Circa 412/0-400 BC. AR Didrachm (21mm, 8.67 g, 1h). Hound advancing right, on the scent; three grain ears in background / Head of the nymph Segesta right, hair in ampyx and sphendone. Hurter, Didrachmenprägung 195 (V61/R110); Mildenberg, Kimon 18; SNG ANS 644; SNG Lloyd 1187; Boston MFA 314–5; Jameson 710; Ward 229 (all from the same dies). VF, find patina, obverse slightly off center, minor roughness on reverse.

From the Robert and Julius Diez Collection. Ex Egger XLV (12 November 1913), lot 327.